Belief, Bounty, and Beauty, Rituals around Sacred Trees in India.

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 sy...

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Main Author: Albertina Nugteren

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2005.

Series: Numen Book Series 108.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

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Trees > Religious aspects > Hinduism.

Hinduism > Rituals.

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