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Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. While each of these deities possesses a distinct iconography, myth, and character, they are all martial. Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri often demand blood sacrifice as part of their worship and offer material and spiritual benefits to their votaries. Richly represented in straw, clay, paint, and decoration, they are similarly displayed in elaborately festooned temples, thronged by thousands of admirers.The first book to recount the history of these festivals and their revelry, rivalry, and nostalgic power, this volume marks an unprecedented achievement in the mapping of a major public event. Rachel Fell McDermott describes the festivals' origins and growth under British rule. She identifies their iconographic conventions and carnivalesque qualities and their relationship to the fierce, Tantric sides of ritual practice. McDermott confronts controversies over the tradition of blood sacrifice and the status-seekers who compete for symbolic capital. Expanding her narrative, she takes readers beyond Bengal's borders to trace the transformation of the goddesses and their festivals across the world. McDermott's work underscores the role of holidays in cultural memory, specifically the Bengali evocation of an ideal, culturally rich past. Under the thrall of the goddess, the social, political, economic, and religious identity of Bengalis takes shape.

Durgā-pūjā (Hindu festival) --- Jagaddhātrī-pūjā (Hindu festival) --- Kālī-pūjā (Hindu festival) --- West Bengal (India)

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During a nine-day period every autumn, Hindus in India and throughout the world worship the Great Goddess, Durgā--the formidable deity who is loved like a mother. One of the most dramatic and popular of these celebrations is the Durgā Pūjā, a rite noted for its visual pageantry, ritual complexity, and communal participation. In this book, Hillary Peter Rodrigues describes the Bengali style of Durgā Pūjā practiced in the sacred city of Banaras from beginning to end. A romanization of the Sanskrit litany is included along with an English translation.In addition to the liturgical description, Rodrigues provides information on the rite's component elements and mythic aspects. There are interpretive sections on puja, the Great Goddess, women's roles in the ritual, and the socio-cultural functions of the ritual. Rodrigues maintains that the Durgā Pūjā is a rite of cosmic rejuvenation, of empowerment at both the personal and social levels, and a rite that orchestrates manifestations of the feminine, both Divine and human.

Durgā-pūjā (Hindu festival) --- Fasts and feasts --- Hinduism --- Durgā --- Cult. --- Durgā (Hindu deity) --- Durga (Hindu deity) --- Durga-puja (Hindu festival)

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Bhakti Yoga --- Swami Sivananda --- Divine Life Society --- God --- Bhakti --- Puja or worship --- Bhava --- the Nine Modes of Bhakti --- Para Bhakti --- Bhakti and Jnana --- Samadhi --- lives of Bhaktas

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Par son aspect sanglant, son déploiement exubérant de rituels et son usage politique, Dasaῖ, la fête nationale du Népal, est une mise en scène particulièrement frappante du pouvoir. Quand débute Dasaῖ, le monde est vide, le temps est arrêté. A l'issue des dix jours de cérémonies, toute la société renaît autour du roi, de son chapelain et de la Déesse. Des danses, des chants, des festins et des beuveries célèbrent alors ce renouveau. Ce recueil de textes offre une approche contextuelle et comparée des variantes de ce culte officiel qui est seule à même d'en dévoiler le sens général. Chaque chapitre forme un tout et enrichit la connaissance historique et sociale du Népal. Entre sources indiennes et histoire himalayenne, la portée politique du rituel a engendré le développement de formes locales spécifiques. Dasaῖ a participé au processus d'unification des royaumes himalayens qui constituèrent l'État-nation népalais. La fête célèbre la Déesse et son triomphe sur les forces démoniaques. Ce drame cosmique sert de trame aux représentations de la souveraineté. La reconsécration du roi qui clôt chaque année la cérémonie révèle une conception contractuelle de l'autorité royale. Les conflits latents de la société hindoue, entre classe royale et sacerdotale, entre le roi des rois et ses vassaux, s'y expriment également. Parler d'histoire politique au travers d'un rituel, c'est aussi, dans le cas du Népal, éclairer les relations qu'entretiennent les minorités – religieuses ou tribales – avec le pouvoir central, s'appropriant ses symboles, s'y soumettant ou s'y opposant.

Durgā-pūjā (Hindu festival) --- Rites and ceremonies --- History. --- History --- Durgā-pūjā (Hindu festival) --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Fasts and feasts --- Hinduism --- Rites and ceremonies - Nepal - History --- cérémonie religieuse --- culte --- divin --- fête (ethnologie) --- Durgä --- histoire --- pouvoir --- Népal --- Dargä-püjä --- fête nationale --- hindouisme --- rite --- Déesses hindoues --- Pouvoir (sciences sociales) --- Jours fériés --- Fêtes religieuses --- Rites et cérémonies --- Fêtes nationales --- Vie religieuse --- Culte --- Civilisation

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Neo-Confucianism. --- Philosophy and science. --- Neo-Confucianism --- Philosophy and science --- Science and philosophy --- Science --- Confucianism --- Philosophy, Chinese --- Zhu, Xi, --- Chu, Hsi, --- C̄ū, Hī, --- Chu, Hi, --- Choo, He, --- Tschu, Hi, --- Shu, Ki, --- Chu, Hy, --- Tchou, Hi, --- Chu, Hũi, --- Tchu-hi, --- 朱熹, --- Zhu, Fuzi, --- Chu, Fu-tzu, --- Choo-Foo-Tze, --- Choo-foo-tsze, --- Chu, Puja, --- 朱夫子, --- Zhu, Zi, --- Chu, Tzu, --- Zhuzi, --- Chu-tzu, --- Chuja, --- Shu-shi, --- Shushi, --- 朱子, --- Zhu, Yuanhui, --- Chu, Yüan-hui, --- 朱元晦, --- Zhu, Zhonghui, --- Chu, Chung-hui, --- 朱仲晦, --- Zhu, Hui'an, --- Chu, Hui-an, --- 朱晦庵, --- Zhu, Huiweng, --- Chu, Hui-weng, --- 朱晦翁, --- Zhu, Dunweng, --- Chu, Tun-weng, --- 朱遯翁, --- Yungulaoren, --- Yün-ku-lao-jen, --- 云谷老人, --- Cangzhoubingsou, --- Tsʻang-chou-ping-sou, --- 沧洲病叟, --- Zhu, Ziyang, --- Chu, Tzu-yang, --- 朱紫陽, --- 朱紫阳, --- Chu, Hsi --- C̄ū, Hī --- Chu, Hi --- Choo, He --- Tschu, Hi --- Shu, Ki --- Chu, Hy --- Tchou, Hi --- Chu, Hũi --- Tchu-hi --- 朱熹