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People Trees: Worship of Trees in Northern India
David L. Haberman
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Description for People Trees: Worship of Trees in Northern India
paperback. People Trees is about religious conceptions of trees within the cultural world of tree worship at the tree shrines of northern India. Sacred trees have been worshipped for millennia in India and today tree worship continues there among all segments of society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HREC; HRGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 398.
This is a book about religious conceptions of trees within the cultural world of tree worship at the tree shrines of northern India. Sacred trees have been worshipped for millennia in India and today tree worship continues there among all segments of society. In the past, tree worship was regarded by many Western anthropologists and scholars of religion as a prime example of childish animism or decadent ''popular religion.'' More recently this aspect of world religious cultures is almost completely ignored in the theoretical concerns of the day. David Haberman hopes to demonstrate that by seriously investigating the world of ... Read more
This is a book about religious conceptions of trees within the cultural world of tree worship at the tree shrines of northern India. Sacred trees have been worshipped for millennia in India and today tree worship continues there among all segments of society. In the past, tree worship was regarded by many Western anthropologists and scholars of religion as a prime example of childish animism or decadent ''popular religion.'' More recently this aspect of world religious cultures is almost completely ignored in the theoretical concerns of the day. David Haberman hopes to demonstrate that by seriously investigating the world of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199929160
SKU
V9780199929160
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99-32
About David L. Haberman
David L. Haberman is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington.
Reviews for People Trees: Worship of Trees in Northern India
engaging and accessible ... Haberman's book brings attention to an important yet understudied aspect of Hindu religious experience, providing a wealth of ethnographic detail, along with compelling theoretical reflections on the limits of concepts such as animism and anthropomorphism ... Recommended.
R.C. Rinehart, CHOICE
The book provides rich insights
Deepa Idnani, South Asia Research
Haberman's People ... Read more
R.C. Rinehart, CHOICE
The book provides rich insights
Deepa Idnani, South Asia Research
Haberman's People ... Read more