Belief, Bounty, and Beauty: Rituals Around Sacred Trees in India.9004146016 Belief, bounty, and beauty; rituals around sacred trees in India. Nugteren, Albertina. Brill Academic Publishers 2005 509 pages $199.00 Hardcover Studies in the history of religions; v.108 BL1215 In was a non-academic article on Indian environmental movements that sparked Nugteren's (phenomenology phenomenology, modern school of philosophy founded by Edmund Husserl. Its influence extended throughout Europe and was particularly important to the early development of existentialism. and history of Indian religions
Indian religions as the name suggests, are a category of religions that originated in India or the Indian subcontinent. They are Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. , Tilburg, U., the Netherlands) interest in trees, especially noticing how easily and self-evidently a glorified glo·ri·fy tr.v. glo·ri·fied, glo·ri·fy·ing, glo·ri·fies 1. To give glory, honor, or high praise to; exalt. 2. past was deployed to vitalize vi·tal·ize tr.v. vi·tal·ized, vi·tal·iz·ing, vi·tal·iz·es 1. To endow with life; animate. 2. To make more lively or vigorous; invigorate. an awareness of modern problems. Focusing on the ritual domain and the inter-relatedness of symbolic and material values, she considers trees in ancient religious literature, from the perspective of kings and poets, and in the Buddhist milieu; a living cult around the wood statues of Puri; rituals around sacred trees in contemporary India; and the symbolic values of trees in Indian environmentalism environmentalism, movement to protect the quality and continuity of life through conservation of natural resources, prevention of pollution, and control of land use. . ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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