bokomslag Religious Festivals in South India and Sri Lanka
Filosofi & religion

Religious Festivals in South India and Sri Lanka

Guy R Welbon Glenn E Yocum

Inbunden

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  • 358 sidor
  • 2023
Exciting celebrations in special time, religious festivals are more than colorful public spectacles. They are mirrors and windows in and through which a full range of human values and concerns whether religious, aesthetic, social, economic and political can be seen. In this volume, twelve scholars explore various dimensions of meaning in some of the many festivals that are vigorously conducted in South India and Sri Lanka. Approaching their subjects from several interdisciplinary perspectives, the authors base their descriptions and interpretations on primary sources: literary documents, their own first-hand observations, and, frequently, a productive combination of textual and contextual data. The essays included to unravel the technical intricacies and symbolisms of festival calendars; analyze representative festival cycles; and vividly describe and comment on individual festival performances from the spectacular Citra Festivals in Madurai, Mahasivaratri, Asa_la Perahras at Kataragama and Kandy to less familiar instances of village festivals, temple festival drama, and festive ritual art forms.
  • Författare: Guy R Welbon, Glenn E Yocum
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9789394262461
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 358
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-10-06
  • Förlag: Manohar Publishers and Distributors