People Trees Worship of Trees in Northern India

Name: People Trees Worship of Trees in Northern India
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ISBN: 9780199929160

ISBN-10: 0199929165

ISBN-13: 9780199929160

Edition: 2013

Authors: David L. Haberman

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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 wasregarded 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 demonstratethat by seriously investigating the world of Indian tree worship, we can learn much about not only this prominent…

Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/10/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



List of Figures


Acknowledgments


Note on Translation and Transliteration


Introduction



Root Issues



Tree Worship in India



King of Trees



Abode of Ghosts and Saturn



Faces of the Goddess



Trees of Immortality



Arboreal Reflections


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index