Religious Festivals in South India and Sri Lanka
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- ISBN 9789394262461
- Dimensions: 160 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 2023
- Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
- Publication City/Country: IN
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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 Perahäras at Kataragama and Kandy to less familiar instances of village festivals, temple festival drama, and festive ritual art forms.
Guy R. Welbon is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and of South Asia Regional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Author of The Buddhist Nirvana and its Western Interpreters. Glenn E. Yocum is an Associate Professor of Religion at Whittier College, Whittier, California. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Tracing his interest in Tamil religious literature to a year spent at Jaffna College in 1967-8.
