Kirjahaku

The Sa?khyayoga institution of Kapil Ma?h is a religious organisation with a small tradition of followers which emerged in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century in Bengal in India around the renunciant and yogin Hariharananda Ara?ya. This tradition developed during the same period in which modern yoga was born and forms a chapter in the expansion of yoga traditions in modern Hinduism.The book analyses the yoga teaching of Hariharananda Ara?ya (1869-1947) and the Kapil Ma?h tradition, its origin, history and contemporary manifestations, and this tradition’s connection to the expansion of yoga and the Yogasutra in modern Hinduism. The Sa?khyayoga of the Kapil Ma?h tradition is based on the Patañjalayogasastra, on a number of texts in Sanskrit and Bengali written by their gurus, and on the lifestyle of the renunciant yogin living isolated in a cave. The book investigates Hariharananda Ara?ya’s connection to pre-modern yoga traditions and the impact of modern production and transmission of knowledge on his interpretations of yoga. The book connects the Kapil Ma?h tradition to the nineteenth century transformations of Bengali religious culture of the educated upper class that led to the production of a new type of yogin. The book analyses Sa?khyayoga as a living tradition, its current teachings and practices, and looks at what Sa?khyayogins do and what Sa?khyayoga is as a yoga practice.A valuable contribution to recent and ongoing debates, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Religious Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Indology, Indian philosophy, Hindu Studies and Yoga Studies.

This book explores Hindu religion from a global perspective and investigates the presence of Hindu religious traditions and some of their diversity worldwide.Hindu traditions are on the move and are established in many new locations around the world, and old and new traditions are continuously changing and being invented and reinvented. The chapters of the book explore these processes and some of the many forms of Hinduism found around the world due to Hindu expansions and suggest different ways of understanding these transformations. The different chapters of the book present new case studies based on historical and ethnographic research that expand on the empirical material typically used to generalize about Hinduism in the world and emphasize diversity.A timely overview and analysis of Hinduism outside India, with a focus on the diversity of Hindu traditions and their contemporary transformation in a number of different geographical settings worldwide, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Hinduism, South Asian religion and society, Asian religions, and migration and religion in the contemporary world.

This book explores Hindu religion from a global perspective and investigates the presence of Hindu religious traditions and some of their diversity worldwide.Hindu traditions are on the move and are established in many new locations around the world, and old and new traditions are continuously changing and being invented and reinvented. The chapters of the book explore these processes and some of the many forms of Hinduism found around the world due to Hindu expansions and suggest different ways of understanding these transformations. The different chapters of the book present new case studies based on historical and ethnographic research that expand on the empirical material typically used to generalize about Hinduism in the world and emphasize diversity.A timely overview and analysis of Hinduism outside India, with a focus on the diversity of Hindu traditions and their contemporary transformation in a number of different geographical settings worldwide, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Hinduism, South Asian religion and society, Asian religions, and migration and religion in the contemporary world.

Salvific space is one of the central ideas in the Hindu traditions of pilgrimage, and concerns the ability of space, especially sites associated with bodies of water such as rivers and lakes, to grant salvific rewards. Focusing on religious, historical and sociological questions about the phenomenon, this book investigates the narratives, rituals, history and structures of salvific space, and looks at how it became a central feature of Hinduism.Arguing that salvific power of place became a major dimension of Hinduism through a development in several stages, the book analyses the historical process of how salvific space and pilgrimage in the Hindu tradition developed. It discusses how the traditions of salvific space exemplify the decentred polycentrism that defines Hinduism. The book uses original data from field research, as well as drawing on main textual sources such as Mahabharata, the Pura?as, the medieval digests on pilgrimage places (tirthas), and a number of Sthalapura?as and Mahatmyas praising the salvific power of the place. By looking at some of the contradictions in and challenges to the tradition of Hindu salvific space in history and in contemporary India, the book is a useful study on Hinduism and South Asian Studies.

The Sa?khyayoga institution of Kapil Ma?h is a religious organisation with a small tradition of followers which emerged in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century in Bengal in India around the renunciant and yogin Hariharananda Ara?ya. This tradition developed during the same period in which modern yoga was born and forms a chapter in the expansion of yoga traditions in modern Hinduism.The book analyses the yoga teaching of Hariharananda Ara?ya (1869-1947) and the Kapil Ma?h tradition, its origin, history and contemporary manifestations, and this tradition’s connection to the expansion of yoga and the Yogasutra in modern Hinduism. The Sa?khyayoga of the Kapil Ma?h tradition is based on the Patañjalayogasastra, on a number of texts in Sanskrit and Bengali written by their gurus, and on the lifestyle of the renunciant yogin living isolated in a cave. The book investigates Hariharananda Ara?ya’s connection to pre-modern yoga traditions and the impact of modern production and transmission of knowledge on his interpretations of yoga. The book connects the Kapil Ma?h tradition to the nineteenth century transformations of Bengali religious culture of the educated upper class that led to the production of a new type of yogin. The book analyses Sa?khyayoga as a living tradition, its current teachings and practices, and looks at what Sa?khyayogins do and what Sa?khyayoga is as a yoga practice.A valuable contribution to recent and ongoing debates, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Religious Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Indology, Indian philosophy, Hindu Studies and Yoga Studies.

Salvific space is one of the central ideas in the Hindu traditions of pilgrimage, and concerns the ability of space, especially sites associated with bodies of water such as rivers and lakes, to grant salvific rewards. Focusing on religious, historical and sociological questions about the phenomenon, this book investigates the narratives, rituals, history and structures of salvific space, and looks at how it became a central feature of Hinduism.Arguing that salvific power of place became a major dimension of Hinduism through a development in several stages, the book analyses the historical process of how salvific space and pilgrimage in the Hindu tradition developed. It discusses how the traditions of salvific space exemplify the decentred polycentrism that defines Hinduism. The book uses original data from field research, as well as drawing on main textual sources such as Mahabharata, the Pura?as, the medieval digests on pilgrimage places (tirthas), and a number of Sthalapura?as and Mahatmyas praising the salvific power of the place. By looking at some of the contradictions in and challenges to the tradition of Hindu salvific space in history and in contemporary India, the book is a useful study on Hinduism and South Asian Studies.

Jainismen er en av verdens eldste nålevende religioner. Den stammer fra India og er framfor alt ikkevoldens religion. Sentrale temaer er måtehold, forsakelse, streng askese, vakker estetikk og respekt for alt levende. Religionen bemerker seg med sin klare forståelse av karma, og med en filosofi som vektlegger virkelighetens mangesidige natur. Jainismens teorier om karma og toleranse var en viktig kilde for Mahatma Gandhis ikkevoldslære. Også Gandhis bruk av faste for å dempe konfliktnivået i samfunnet har slektskap med jainismens ritualer og dens lære om matens betydning.Jainismen. Religion, historie og ikkevold tar for seg:opprinnelse og historie sentrale tekster lære og filosofi globale visjoner ritualer og symboler utbredelse og diaspora Målgruppen er studenter i religionsvitenskap og Sør-Asia-studier og alle som er interessert i religion, samfunn og kultur.

Hinduismen er verdens tredje største religion og den dominerende religionen i India, en kommende økonomisk stormakt og snart verdens folkerikeste land. Her får du en velskrevet og personlig introduksjon fra en av Norges fremste eksperter på dette området.Hinduismen er - med sin åpenhet for hellighet - en pluralistisk, inkluderende og grunnleggende tolerant religion. Hva er hinduisme gir denne religionens mange unike bidrag til menneskehetens religiøse fellesarv. Religiøse skikker i India har i flere tusen år fascinert vesten som har knyttet forestillinger om det fantastiske til dette geografiske området, og sett på hinduismen som kilden til all verdens visdom. Hva er hinduisme gir et engasjert innblikk i noen av denne religionens mirakel- og visdomstradisjoner.

Boka gir ei historisk innføring i hinduismens mangfold av uttrykksformer. Den ser på teksttradisjoner, vishnuismen, shivaismen, yogatradisjoner, ritualer og utfordringer hinduismen møter i den moderne verden. Har ordforklaringer, litteraturliste og register.

Boken gir en innføring i buddhismens historie og utforming. Har ordliste, stikkordregister og litteraturliste.

Hyllest til Gudinnen inneholder et essay om Gudinnen i hinduismen og en oversettelse av denne religionens viktigste gudinnetekst. Hinduismen er den eneste av verdensreligionene som i sin klassiske utforming, så vel som i samtidens, har dominerende gudinnetradisjoner. Disse tradisjonene går flere tusen år tilbake i tid. Monoteistiske forestillinger om Gudinnen som den ene ytterste guddommelige virkelighet går tilbake til 500-tallet v.t. og teksten Devi-Mahatmya. Teksten hadde avgjørende betydning for at den store Gudinnen ble en vedvarende størrelse i Indias religiøse liv, og er en av de viktigste religiøse tekster i hinduismen også i våre dager. Boken inneholder en oversettelse av denne teksten i sin helhet. Interessen i vår tid for Gud som kvinnelig eller et gudsbegrep som overstiger kjønnsdualismen, har gjort hinduismens forestillinger om Gudinnen relevante langt utover Indias og hinduismens grenser. Denne boken henvender seg derfor ikke bare til mennesker med interesse for religioner i India og Sør-Asia, men også til alle som er opptatt av Gudinnen. Knut A. Jacobsen er professor i religionsvitenskap ved Universitetet i Bergen. Jacobsen er spesialist på religioner i India og på indiske religioner i diaspora. Han har tidligere utgitt en rekke bøker om hinduismen, buddhismen, sikhismen og indiske yogatradisjoner.

Sikhismen er en av verdens sentrale religioner og en viktig del av menneskehetens religiøse fellesarv. På verdensbasis identifiserer nesten 25 millioner seg med denne religionen og i Norge bor det rundt 5000 sikher. Denne boken gir en fremstilling av denne særpregete religionen og sikhenes religiøse liv. Boken omhandler:sikhismens grunnlegger Guru Nanak guruene og sikhenes hellige bok den historiske utviklingen lære og symboler samfunn og identitet ritualer, fester og helligsteder sikhenes diaspora i Norge