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294.5 --- 294.5 Hindoeïsme--(in strikte zin) --- 294.5 Hindoeïsme:--verder in te delen zoals 291.1/.8 --- Hindoeïsme--(in strikte zin) --- Hindoeïsme:--verder in te delen zoals 291.1/.8 --- Dictionaries. --- Hinduism. --- Hinduism-- Dictionaries. --- Eastern Religions --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- sanskrit --- alphabet --- initial --- capital --- letter --- cosmic --- ocean --- hatha --- yoga --- subtle --- dictionary --- Hinduism --- Indian religious thought --- religious practices --- education --- India --- rituals --- spirituality

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The only book of its kind, this balanced and accessibly written text explores the geographical study of religion. Roger W. Stump provides a full and impartial discussion of religious doctrines, beliefs, events, and practices. The author's broad, comparative approach is bolstered by a wealth of case studies ranging from the major world religions to a diversity of indigenous, unconventional, and extinct religions. Illustrating religious concepts with both traditional and current examples, Stump considers the historical and contemporary interactions between religion and a wide range of social, po

Religion and geography. --- Religion. --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Geography and religion --- Geography --- Religion and geography --- 912:2 --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Godsdienst. Theologie --- world religions --- the geography of religion --- religious sects --- religious schools --- religious doctrines --- beliefs --- religious practices --- religious events --- religion and culture --- religion and society

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In a riveting first-person account, Todd Ramón Ochoa explores Palo, a Kongo-inspired "society of affliction" that is poorly understood at the margins of Cuban popular religion. Narrated as an encounter with two teachers of Palo, the book unfolds on the outskirts of Havana as it recounts Ochoa's attempts to assimilate Palo praise of the dead. As he comes to terms with a world in which everyday events and materials are composed of the dead, Ochoa discovers in Palo unexpected resources for understanding the relationship between matter and spirit, for rethinking anthropology's rendering of sorcery, and for representing the play of power in Cuban society. The first fully detailed treatment of the world of Palo, Society of the Dead draws upon recent critiques of Western metaphysics as it reveals what this little known practice can tell us about sensation, transformation, and redemption in the Black Atlantic.

Palo. --- Afro-Caribbean cults --- Death --- Religious aspects. --- Cuba --- Religious life and customs. --- Religion --- anthropology. --- black atlantic. --- comparative religion. --- cuba. --- cuban society. --- cultural anthropologists. --- discussion books. --- ethnic tribal. --- ethnographers. --- ethnography. --- havana. --- kongo. --- living and dead. --- nonfiction. --- palo. --- personal account. --- popular religion. --- praise of the dead. --- quita manaquita. --- religious practices. --- religious rituals. --- religious scholars. --- religious studies. --- sorcery. --- spiritual. --- transformation. --- tribal practices. --- western perspective. --- world religions.

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The search for transcendence is by no means limited to the Faustian West or the major world religions. Indeed, tribal peoples around the globe practice diverse but related forms of the spiritual quest. In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary study, Torrance argues that the quest is rooted in our biological, psychological, linguistic, and social nature. The human being is as much animal quaerens - the questing animal - in scientific inquiry as in shamanistic flight. The quest, for Torrance, is the effort to transcend our given limits in pursuit of a goal that cannot be wholly known in advance. It is a search for visionary truths, which are then transmitted in narratives that provide metaphors for individual and social transformation. Drawing on thinkers as diverse as Bergson and Piaget, van Gennep and Turner, Peirce and Popper, Freud and Darwin, Torrance concludes that the spiritual quest is not a rare mystical experience but an expression of human impulses. In first exploring the foundations of the spiritual quest, Torrance demonstrates that human culture is not a static affirmation of an immutable past but a perpetually transitional process. He then examines variations of this activity in the myths and religious practices of tribal peoples throughout the world, from Oceania to India, Africa, Siberia, and the Americas. Torrance finds that, even in the seemingly fixed rituals of agricultural and ancestral rites, change and futurity find a place. The role of the unknown greatly expands in spirit possession through communication with the beyond. Yet nowhere, Torrance shows, is the creative tension between communal ceremony and individual aspiration more striking than in the native cultures of North and South America, and nowhere does the drive for transcendence attain fuller expression than in the vision quests of the Northeastern Woodlands and of the Great Plains. In concluding his richly varied study of the quest, Torrance theorizes that this fundamental human activity must be understood as a ternary relation, outside the binary oppositions of structuralist thought. Through this inherently transitional activity, humanity transcends the continual impasse of the given in search of what lies forever beyond. Shaman and scientist, medium and poet, prophet and philosopher, all venture forth in quest of visionary truths to transform and renew the world to which they must always return.

Indian mythology --- Indians --- Spiritual life --- Vision quests --- Vie spirituelle --- Mythologie indienne d'Amérique --- Indiens --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Religion --- Cross-cultural studies --- Rites and ceremonies --- Etudes transculturelles --- Rites et cérémonies --- Indian mythology. --- Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Mythology, Indian --- Mythology --- Quests, Vision --- Indians of North America --- Life, Spiritual --- Religious life --- Spirituality --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Religion. --- Religion and mythology --- affirmation. --- animal quaerens. --- communal ritual. --- communication with the beyond. --- comparative religion. --- ecstasy. --- ethnic religious practices. --- faust. --- folklore. --- human being. --- human experience. --- human impulses. --- humanity. --- individual transformation. --- interdisciplinary. --- major world religions. --- mobility. --- mythology. --- questing animal. --- ritual and myth. --- shaman. --- shamanism. --- social transformation. --- spirit possession. --- spiritual quest. --- spirituality. --- transcendence. --- transformation. --- tribal peoples. --- tribal religious practices. --- visionary truth.

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A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life-Tantra has held a central yet conflicted role within the Western imagination ever since the first "discovery" of Indian religions by European scholars. Always radical, always extremely Other, Tantra has proven a key factor in the imagining of India. This book offers a critical account of how the phenomenon has come to be. Tracing the complex genealogy of Tantra as a category within the history of religions, Hugh B. Urban reveals how it has been formed through the interplay of popular and scholarly imaginations. Tantra emerges as a product of mirroring and misrepresentation at work between East and West--a dialectical category born out of the ongoing play between Western and Indian minds. Combining historical detail, textual analysis, popular cultural phenomena, and critical theory, this book shows Tantra as a shifting amalgam of fantasies, fears, and wish-fulfillment, at once native and Other, that strikes at the very heart of our constructions of the exotic Orient and the contemporary West.

Tantric Buddhism. --- Tantrism. --- Buddhism, Tantric --- Buddhist tantrism --- Esoteric Buddhism --- Mantrayāna Buddhism --- Mikkyō --- Tantrism, Buddhist --- Vajrayāna Buddhism --- Buddhism --- Mahayana Buddhism --- Tantricism --- Tantrism, Hindu --- Hinduism --- Magic --- Mysticism --- anthropology. --- buddhism. --- buddhist tradition. --- comparative religion. --- contemporary religion. --- critical theory. --- cultural phenomena. --- east and west. --- eastern philosophy. --- european scholars. --- faith and spirituality. --- hinduism. --- india. --- indian religions. --- jainism. --- nonfiction. --- physical experiences. --- political power. --- religious lives. --- religious practices. --- religious secrecy. --- religious studies. --- sensuality. --- sex. --- sexual politics. --- sexuality. --- tantra. --- western thought. --- western world. --- world religions.