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Water and Womanhood: Religious Meanings of Rivers in Maharashtra
Book by Anne Feldhaus; Oxford University Press, 1995
Subjects: Goddesses--India--Maharashtra, Maharashtra (India)--Religious Life And Customs, Rivers--India--Maharashtra--Folklore, Rivers--Mythology--India--Maharashtra, Rivers--Religious Aspects--Hinduism, Women In Hinduism
...0-19-509283-X paper 1. Rivers--Religious aspects--Hinduism. 2. Women in Hinduism. 3. Goddesses--India--Maharashtra. 4. Maharashtra India --Religious life and customs. 5. Rivers--India--Maharashtra--Mythology. 6. Rivers...
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Goddesses and Women in the Indic Religious Tradition
Book by Arvind Sharma; Brill, 2005
Subjects: Goddesses, Hindu, Women And Religion, Women In Hinduism, Women--Religious Aspects--Hinduism
...dakint right in his office at Nalanda University in north India. One day as Naropa was absorbed in academic study with...in C. G. Jung and C. Kerenyi, Essays on a Science of Mythology, pp. 156-77, trans. R. F. C. Hull (Princeton: Princeton...In Jung, Carl G. and Kerenyi, C. Essays on a Science of Mythology. Pp. 156-77. Translated by R. F. C. Hull. Princeton: Princeton...argues that it forms the basis of the Goddess culture of India. In this part relying on the theagraphy of the Sakta-Hindu...
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Jewels of Authority: Women and Textual Tradition in Hindu India
Book by Laurie L. Patton; Oxford University Press, 2002
Subjects: Dowry--India--History, Hindu Women--India--History, Hinduism--Social Aspects, Women's Rights--Religious Aspects--Hinduism, Women--India--Social Conditions, Women--Religious Aspects--Hinduism
...references and index. ISBN 0-19-513478-8 1. Women India Social conditions. 2. Hindu women India History. 3. Women Religious aspects Hinduism. 4. Hinduism Social aspects. 5. Womens rights Religious aspects Hinduism. 6. Dowry India History. HQ1742. P39...
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Book by Lance E. Nelson; State University of New York Press, 1998
Subjects: Hinduism--Doctrines, Human Ecology--India, Human Ecology--Religious Aspects--Hinduism
...utilitarians deem all aspects of nature to be at...anthropology, sociology, and religious studies become important...years. Mountains and rivers not only have long...Wildlife Fund to publish Hinduism and Ecology: Seeds...Religious Meanings of Rivers in Maharashtra . New York: Oxford...Beast and Man in India: A Popular Sketch...
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Converting Women: Gender and Protestant Christianity in Colonial South India
Book by Eliza F. Kent; Oxford University Press, 2004
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...Brahmanical Hinduism. 34 In south India, low-caste men and women were recruited...religious worship. In particular, the mythology surrounding Murugans marriage to Valli...nineteenth-century religious discourse in India to associate women with superstition...influential population of Christians in India) was the tiny yet diverse congregation...
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Commonalities in Hinduism and Judaism
Journal article by V.M. Kelkar, Y.D. Vaishnav; International Journal of Humanities and Peace, Vol. 17, 2001
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Commonalities in Hinduism and Judaism. by V.M. Kelkar...would lead to introducing the concept of religious coexistence and consequently, survival...Hazarat Musa, in search of the country with rivers flowing with milk and honey, returned...
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Female Ascetics in Hinduism
Journal article by Sondra L. Hausner; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 12, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Female Ascetics in Hinduism (Book)--Book reviews
Female Ascetics in Hinduism. by Sondra L. Hausner DENTON, LYNN TESKEY. Female ascetics...outside of marriage and respectably pursue, for their own benefit, a religious ideal. Dumont would be proud. Dentons analysis on the distinctions...
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The Co-existence of Violence and Non-Violence in Hinduism
Journal article by Anantanand Rambachan; The Ecumenical Review, Vol. 55, 2003
Subjects: Hinduism--Analysis, Nonviolence--Religious aspects, Violence--Religious aspects
The co-existence of violence and non-violence in Hinduism. by Anantanand Rambachan The most famous...train with Hindu passengers. Hindus reacted violently. Religious chanting and the invocation of the name of God accompanied...
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Journal article by Lorna Wright, Virginia Crockett Tellei; International Studies of Management & Organization, Vol. 23, 1993
Subjects: Corporations, Indonesian--Management, Indonesia--Social aspects, Women executives--Indonesia
...majority adhering to a less strict version tempered by Hinduism (Islam abangan, or nominal Islam). 18. Some popular...Eighteenth Century: The Record of a Lady Soldier." Part I: "The Religious, Social and Economic Life of the Court." Indonesia, 29...
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Asian Women in Management
Journal article by Nancy J. Adler; International Studies of Management & Organization, Vol. 23, 1993
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...state-dominated socialist economy (Lasserre, 1991); and numerous religious traditions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, and Islam. Yet over the last decade, Asia has emerged...
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India's Miracle City
Magazine article by Ian Jackson; Geographical, Vol. 73, April 2001
Subjects: Buildings, Temporary--Design and construction, City planning--Management, Fasts and feasts--Hinduism, Ganges River--Religious aspects, Rivers--Religious aspects
...sangam, the confluence of the holy rivers, of the Ganges and the Yamuna and...their heads. Far from being a solemn religious affair, this was an expression of...India in AD629. The origins lie in Hinduisms creation myths that describe the...
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Within the Rules - the Hindu Women of Bhaktapur, Nepal
Magazine article by Barbara Mcclatchie-Andrews; World and I, Vol. 15, September 2000
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...considered reincarnations of Vishnu and, thus, semisacred. They would establish the kingdoms social structure and set its religious tone. Hari Singh, father of the Newari, organized his people in thars, clans that lived and worked together. Vocations...
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...to preserve the ethnicity of a group or clan employ control of women and their sexuality to achieve this end. Judaism, Hinduism, and Confucian-ism are examples of these ethnic religions. Women were dominated to ensure the purity of the bloodlines...
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...also exist in an area where both Buddhism and Hinduism are practised. The crumbly orange-red earth...could get. JANICE THORPE, a `plump technician in her 30s, was on a field trip to South America in 2228, working for Unichem, collecting samples...
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For God's Sake, Can't My Children Be Taught Their Own Religion? A Furious Mother on How Her Children Have Been Bombarded with Teaching about Islam, Sikhism and Hinduism but Nothing about Their Own Culture
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Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 14, 2008
Subjects: Clothing, Clothing and dress, Hinduism
...temple while in the southernmost state of Kerala. I could not go in, I was informed, unless I donned a sari and converted to Hinduism. I could understand the latter requirement, but the former intrigued me; what was there about wearing a sari that was quintessentially...
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Roy, Rammohun
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