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Pūjā Associations in West Bengal
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (3): 579–594.
Published: 01 May 1969
...Jyotirmoyee Sarma Abstract In the Indian Hindu society of today voluntary associations form for the purpose of sponsoring annual religious ceremonies or pūjās. These associations are organized by young men who collect funds from their neighbors and friends, install images for worship in temporary...
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Tracking the Goddess: Religion, Community, and Identity in the Durga Puja Ceremonies of Nineteenth-Century Calcutta
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 919–962.
Published: 01 November 2007
...Tithi Bhattacharya Abstract Focusing on colonial Calcutta in the later decades of the nineteenth century, this essay explores the evolution of a particular festival, the Durga Puja, to explore the ways in which religion negotiated its place in the ideological determinants of modernity. The essay...
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Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal: The Fortunes of Hindu Festivals
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 290–292.
Published: 01 February 2012
.... McDermott's central argument establishes three thematic foci that reveal the contours of these inter-connected religious festivals or pūjās in their public settings: 1) the revelry that is their ever-present accompaniment; 2) the rivalry among the agonistic cultural contestations on display during festival...
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Technophany and Its Publics: Artisans, Technicians, and the Rise of Vishwakarma Worship in India
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 3–21.
Published: 01 February 2022
... and domestic workshops belonging to India's hereditary artisan castes. Over the past 150 years, Vishwakarma has moved beyond craft workshops and into public view. In many parts of India, shops of manufacture or repair hang a calendar image of Vishwakarma to be used in daily, monthly, and annual worship (pujas...
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Invoking Lakshmi: The Goddess of Wealth in Song and Ceremony
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (4): 1197–1199.
Published: 01 November 2011
... to the author, so that the reader may chant them out in the original, noting “The mantras that constitute the songs to the goddess carry her sacred energy, for their syllables are understood to constitute her sonic body” (p. 61). Rhodes includes an excellent analysis of hospitality as it relates to puja...
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Guests at God's Wedding: Celebrating Kartik among the Women of Benares
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (1): 273–275.
Published: 01 February 2007
..., women's rituals emphasize themes that are central to their experience: In women's Kartik pūjā [ritual worship], the marriage of Krishna and Tulsi does not just supplement imagery of Vishnu awakening from a four-month slumber or vanquishing demonic forces as marking the return of cosmic auspiciousness...
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Nine Nights of Power: Durgā, Dolls, and Darbārs
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 738–740.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Sen, and Hillary Rodrigues. The Navaratri festival, also known as Durga Puja in some regions, is celebrated four times a year according to the Hindu calendar. However, the book recognizes only its spring and autumnal edition. Nav means “nine” and ratri refers to night. Hence, Navaratri stands...
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Ritual Pollution as an Integrator of Caste and Religion
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (S1): 151–197.
Published: 01 June 1964
... this quality even if touched by a Sudra, although cotton becomes mailige if touched by an Untouchable. (Silk which has been washed becomes mailige if touched by a Sudra.) New cotton retains its madi for one day's wearing, whereas silk lasts for a week. If in order to reach a place where he will do puja a man...
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God of Justice: Ritual Healing and Social Justice in the Central Himalayas
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 294–295.
Published: 01 February 2011
... his puja and his possession of oracles and devotees. It concludes with a lucid discussion of performativity, drawing on the work of Austin, Connerton, and Butler to assert that Kachiya Bhairav's songs, appearance, and mode of possession embody the collective memory of Harijans, and particularly...
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Of Love and War: A Chayavad Anthology
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (3): 866–869.
Published: 01 August 2007
... impetus to which translations of Nirala's Rām kī s´akti-pūjā and Preyasī were added (p. vii). These three poems, which comprise part 1, suggest the volume's name; Āṁsū and Preyasī are concerned with erotic love and the corresponding traditional theme of viraha (separation from the beloved...
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Worship of the Goddess According to the Kālikāpurāṇa
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 36 (1): 172–174.
Published: 01 November 1976
... of the Kalika Purarja, own balanced position, which seeks to take ac- describing the worship of the goddess. Durga Puja count of legend, textual hint, and traditions from is the preeminent ritual of contemporary Bengali all over India. The remainder of the introduction Hindus; Bengali pandits have described...
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Unrolling a Narrative Scroll: Artistic Practice and Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Bengal
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 835–871.
Published: 01 August 2003
... University . Chaliha Jaya , and Gupta Bunny . 1990 a. “Chitpur.” In The Past . Vol. 1 of Calcutta, the Living City , edited by Chaudhuri Sukanta . Calcutta : Oxford University Press . Chaliha Jaya , and Gupta Bunny . 1990 b. “Durga Puja in Calcutta.” In The Present...
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Hindu Tantrism
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (4): 831–833.
Published: 01 August 1980
... a salutary division of labor. Goudriaan does the longitudinal analysis, Hoens explains tantric transmission and the constituents of tantric practice, and Gupta focuses more narrowly on tantric ritual, i.e., puja and yoga- Goudriaan also wrote the short introduction. The authors omit some points which should...
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Editorial Foreword
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 877–880.
Published: 01 November 2007
... in the Durga Puja festival in nineteenth-century Calcutta. Bhattacharya argues that a nationalist and deeply gendered Hindu revivalist rhetoric linked public political discourse to private domestic practices. The figure of the goddess Durga, says Bhattacharya, came to combine nationalist desire and political...
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Religion and Psychosocial Development in Sinhalese Buddhism
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (2): 221–232.
Published: 01 February 1978
...) functionary in the more typical theistic ritual, the deva puja the chief elements of which are mass offerings to the goddess and a lime-cutting ceremony. Always in the gammaduva, and sometimes in the puja, the Pattini priest impersonates the goddess, who may speak through him to the worshipers, exhorting...
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Taman Indera: A Royal Pleasure Ground: Malay Decorative Arts and Pastimes
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 33 (2): 331–332.
Published: 01 February 1974
... ambivalent reaction: One of the last of these great folk festivals (Puja Pantai) was attended by the author in 1958 at Bachok, the most beautiful beach in Kelantan. It began on the long sandy ridge, overlooking the beach, with its groves of tall coconut palms. The ridge normally gave an unobstructed view...
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Myth, Cult and Symbols of Śākta Hinduism: A Study of the Indian Mother Goddess
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (3): 597–599.
Published: 01 May 1979
.... This exposition of the cult of the goddess Durga-Kall provides an illuminating and complexly interwoven portrait of the main structures cosmic-mythic (KallSakti), ritual-cultic (Kall-Puja) and eschatological-symbolic (Kall-Yuga) of the goddess. A primary aim is to seek and to demonstrate the structural...
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The Muslims of Burma: A Study of a Minority Group
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 33 (2): 329–331.
Published: 01 February 1974
... ambivalent reaction: One of the last of these great folk festivals (Puja Pantai) was attended by the author in 1958 at Bachok, the most beautiful beach in Kelantan. It began on the long sandy ridge, overlooking the beach, with its groves of tall coconut palms. The ridge normally gave an unobstructed view...
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Sati Worship and Marwari Public Identity in India
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (3): 723–752.
Published: 01 August 1999
... to explain to them that it was only a puja, they just would not listen. And then when they tried to stop our puja, our women got very wild also, 738 ANNE HARDGROVE and started saying all kinds of things to them you know, things like 'You women are used to having seven, eight men at a time, what do you...
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Special Time, Special Power: The Fluidity of Power in a Popular Hindu Festival
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 37 (1): 27–43.
Published: 01 November 1977
... in a legal trial), though sometimes more general (happiness, success, wealth, etc.). The vows are usually to fulfill simple services to the god (to make a pilgrimage, sacrifice a goat, make pūjā a certain number of times, etc.)-Sometimes (but rarely in present times) more extreme vows are made—e.g...
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