Rites of the God-King PDF book is popular Religion book written by Marko Geslani. The book was released by Oxford University Press on 2018-06-08 with total hardcover pages 337. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Rites of the God-King by Marko Geslani in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
Scholars of Vedic religion have long recognized the centrality of ritual categories to Indian thought. There have been few successful attempts, however, to brin
Rites of the God-King offers a critical revision of mainstream Hinduism from the perspective of the life of a single ritual from medieval India. Drawing theoret
Focusing on the tension between the purity and impurity of the "devadasis"--a handful of female devotees of the Hindu temple and cult of Jagannatha at Puri--thi
Descriptions of animal sacrifice in Homer offer detailed accounts of this attempt at communication between man and gods. Hitch explores the structural and thema
The world fractures as a dead god rises... Darel, dragon knight and the new leader of Black Keep, must travel to the palace of the God-King to beg for the lives