Belief, Bounty, and Beauty, : Rituals around Sacred Trees in India.
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 sy...
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| Superior document: | Studies in the history of religions ; Volume 108 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2005. |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Numen Book Series
108. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 509 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Symbol and sacredness: Trees in ancient religious literature
- Forests, woods, groves, parks and trees: The king’s duty, the poet’s beauty
- Buddha, Buddhism, and the bodhi tree
- Gods of wood, gods of stone: The ritual renewal of the wooden statues at Purī
- Contemporary tree worship
- Planting and prasād versus plunder and pollution: Sacred trees in Indian environmental movements
- Belief, bounty, and beauty: The interrelatedness of symbolic and material values
- Bibliography
- Index.