Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition
10 best books like Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition (David R. Kinsley): The Yoga of Power: Tantra, Shakti, and the Secret Way, Ariadne's Thread: A Workbook of Goddess Magic, Forests of the Vampires: Slavic Myth, The Once and Future Goddess, The Bijak of Kabir, Kali: The Feminine Force, Philosophies of India, The Path of Practice: A Woman's Book of Ayurvedic Healing, Voodoo in Haiti, Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India
| Author | Julius Evola |
| ISBN | 0892813687 |
Перевод, увы, с английского и местами несколько странный (например, там, где уместно было бы, возможно, говорить о powers как о «силах» — в смысле, скажем, сверхспособностей,...
| Author | Shekhinah Mountainwater |
| ISBN | 0895944758 |
Using the figure of the ancient Goddess Ariadne as a metaphor, Mountainwater unravels the mysteries of a woman-centered spirituality. She offers gentle guidance through the cycles of a woman's life; the phases of the moon; the yearly nature holidays; and the aspects of divination. She concludes...
Forests of the Vampires: Slavic Myth
| Author | Charles Phillips |
| ISBN | 0705436136 |
This book is a good introduction to Slavic myth, even though the title "Slavic myth" is a bit misleading. The book is very Russo-centric, which sometimes seems unavoidable. The book is valuable more for its entertainment value than for its academic merit, but it provides a basic, quick-and-dirty history...
| Author | Elinor W. Gadon |
| ISBN | 0062503545 |
A richly illustrated testament to the reemergence of the Goddess in the art and in the lives of contemporary women and men. In this beautifully illustrated and far-reaching history. Elinor Gadon vividly weaves words and images to demonstrate the powerful connections between ancient and contemporary...
"First the pain of separation, then the thirst for Love"
says Kabir, "only then will you know Joy of the Union".
Bijak: means a document containing sacred texts. And it is one of the earliest of the major texts in modern Hindi. Kabir suggested that True God is with the person who is on the...
| Author | Ajit Mookerjee |
| ISBN | 0892812125 |
If you know absolutely nothing about female deities in Hinduism, this might be useful to read. But the focus remains much more on the images than the actual text and there is much less emphasis on Kali herself than the title would suggest. For both of these reasons, I will be seeking out another book on the...
| Author | Heinrich Robert Zimmer |
| ISBN | 0691017581 |
The volume is divided into four sections: The introduction places the position of the Buddhist Tantras within Mahayana Buddhism and recalls their early literary history, especially the Guhyasamahatantra; the section also covers Buddhist Genesis and the Tantric tradition. The foundations of...
| Author | Maya Tiwari |
| ISBN | 0345434846 |
"We are wellness. We are consciousness. That is our natural state. Disease is an imposter."
As one of the world's only female experts on the ancient Indian tradition of Ayurvedic medicine, renowned teacher Bri. Maya Tiwari has devoted her heart and soul to sharing the philosophy and methods...
| Author | Alfred Métraux |
| ISBN | 0805208941 |
Voodoo in Haiti is a masterwork of observation and description by one of the most distinguished anthropologists of the twentieth century. Alfred Métraux (1902–1963) has written a rich and lasting study of the lives and rituals of the Haitian mambos and adepts, and of the history and origins of their...
| Author | Diana L. Eck |
| ISBN | 0231112653 |
This book was OK. I picked it up to understand the etymology behind my name that I share with the book's title.
It highlights how important visuals are in Hindu culture along with emphasizing how the worship of these images transcend exclusively visual boundaries in the mind of a Hindu worshipper....
The Myths and Gods of India: The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism from the Princeton Bollingen Series
| Author | Alain Daniélou |
| ISBN | 0892813547 |
The study of Hindu mythology explores the significance of the most prominent Hindu dieties as they are envisioned by the Hindus themselves. Referred to by its adherents as the "eternal religion," Hinduism recognizes for each age and each country a new form of revelation--and for each person, according...
| Author | Elizabeth U. Harding |
| ISBN | 0892540257 |
Mahakali.
She is as dark as our ego, as black basalt as our desires. She stands on her husband Bhairav's chest, as Bhairavi. She wears a garland of severed heads. Her one hand blesses and offers boons to devotees. Her other hand holds another severed head, probably rakthabija's.
She emphasizes...
| Author | Wendy Doniger |
| ISBN | 0195202503 |
Originally published under the title Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva, this book traces the development of an Indian approach to an enduring human dilemma: the conflict between spiritual aspirations and human desires. The work examines hundreds of related myths and a wide range...
Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India
| Author | Ritu Menon |
| ISBN | 0813525527 |
As an event of shattering consequence, the Partition of India remains significant today. While Partition sounds smooth on paper, the reality was horrific. More than eight million people migrated and one million died in the process. The forced migration, violence between Hindus and Muslims, and...
The Little Book of Hindu Deities: From the Goddess of Wealth to the Sacred Cow
| Author | Sanjay Patel |
| ISBN | 0452287758 |
Pixar animator and Academy Award–nominated director Sanjay Patel (Sanjay’s Super Team) brings to life Hinduism’s most important gods and goddesses (and one sacred stone) in fun, full-color illustrations, each accompanied by a short, lively profile. The Little Book of Hindu Deities is chock-full...
| Author | Raphael Patai |
| ISBN | 0814322719 |
Having read the Myths of Genesis book coauthored with Robert Graves, I was atuned to Patais' name and approach. Finding a copy of his Hebrew Goddess therefore led to its purchase at a local bookstore.
Contrary to some reviewers, the Hebrew bible is replete with contradictions. It's just that...
Tantric Yoga and the Wisdom Goddesses: Spiritual Secrets of Ayurveda
| Author | David Frawley |
| ISBN | 0910261393 |
David Frawley (or Vāmadeva Śāstrī वामदेव शास्त्री), b. 1950, is an American Hindu teacher (acharya) and author, who has written more than thirty books on topics such as the Vedas, Hinduism, Yoga, Ayurveda and Vedic astrology, published both in India and in the...
The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure
| Author | Victor Turner |
| ISBN | 0202011909 |
In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.
The Ritual Process has acquired the status...
With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India
| Author | Gayatri Reddy |
| ISBN | 0226707563 |
With Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social difference in India. The subjects of this study are hijras or the "third sex" of India, individuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and female, sacred and profane. Hijras are men who...
The Altar of My Soul: The Living Traditions of Santeria
| Author | Marta Moreno Vega |
| ISBN | 0345421558 |
Long cloaked in protective secrecy, demonized by Western society, and distorted by Hollywood, Santería is at last emerging from the shadows with an estimated 75 million orisha followers worldwide. In The Altar of My Soul, Marta Moreno Vega recounts the compelling true story of her journey from ignorance...
Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India
| Author | Roberto Calasso |
| ISBN | 0679775471 |
With the same narrative fecundity and imaginative sympathy he brought to his acclaimed retelling of the Greek myths, Roberto Calasso plunges Western readers into the mind of ancient India. He begins with a mystery: Why is the most important god in the Rg Veda, the oldest of India's sacred texts, known...
The Serpent Power: The Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga
| Author | Arthur Avalon |
| ISBN | 0486230589 |
Two works on Laya-yoga, translated from the Sanskrit, with introduction & commentary.
Written by a leading authority on Shaktic & Tantric thought, this book is considered the prime document for study & application of Kundalini yoga. It probes the philosophical & mythological...
A Pagan Ritual Prayer Book
| Author | Ceisiwr Serith |
| ISBN | 1578634849 |
From the Fall Equinox and Beltane to celebrations of peace and justice, A Pagan Ritual Prayer Book offers more than 700 prayers for the rituals of lifefrom the sacred to the mundane.
A companion to the popular A Book of Pagan Prayer, this handbook of rituals and prayers is organized thematically,...
