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Belief, Bounty, and Beauty: Rituals Around Sacred Trees in India
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Belief, Bounty, and Beauty: Rituals Around Sacred Trees in India Hardcover - 2005

by Albertina Nugteren


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  • Title Belief, Bounty, and Beauty: Rituals Around Sacred Trees in India
  • Author Albertina Nugteren
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 509
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brill
  • Date September 2005
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9789004146013 / 9004146016
  • Weight 2.28 lbs (1.03 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.56 x 6.32 x 1.44 in (24.28 x 16.05 x 3.66 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Hindu
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005050144
  • Dewey Decimal Code 294.521

About the author

Albertina Nugteren, Ph.D. (1991) in Indian Languages and Culture, Universities of Utrecht and Leiden, is Assistant Professor (Phenomenology and History of Indian Religions) at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. She has published on various topics relating to traditional and contemporary aspects of Indian culture.
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Leiden: Brill, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. near fine. Octavo. x, 509, (1)pp. Index and 60 page bibliography. Pictorial buckram with lilac/gray spine lettered in white. A fine but ex-library copy (with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block). This study is focused on the interaction of material and symbolic values in the domain of sacred trees in India. By presenting samples from 3,000 years of Indian ritual practice, it is shown that in many sacred geographies trees continue to connect the present with the past, the material with the symbolic, and the contemporary ecological with the traditionally sacred. Although in India religion may have become very much a temple cult, its embeddedness in the natural world enhances today's 'green' interpretation of religious traditions. That in environmental matters such religious inspiration may be both successful and highly ambivalent at the same time is the thought-provoking position taken in the final chapters.… Read More
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