Belief, Bounty, and Beauty: Rituals Around Sacred Trees in India

by Albertina Nugteren

This study is focused on the interaction of material and symbolic values in the domain of sacred trees in India. By presenting samples from 3,000 years of Indian ritual practice, it is shown that in many sacred geographies trees continue to connect the present with the past, the material with the symbolic, and the contemporary ecological with the traditionally sacred.
Although in India religion may have become very much a temple cult, its embeddedness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004146016
• ISBN13: 9789004146013
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 509 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.6"