RELIGION / Devotional

Paper · Semantic Scholar

Religious rituals are not merely devotional practices but social processes through which meanings, identities, and spatial orders are produced and stabilized. This article examines the resilience of Sima'an al-Qur'an and Dhikr al-Ghafilin in Ponorogo, East Java, where large-scale gatherings persist amid urban modernity. Drawing on Peter L. Berger's sociology of knowledge, this qualitative study analyzes how ritual p…

Reference · Wikidata

Academic monograph about Indian kingship and Religion

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Bhakti is a concept common in Indian religions which means attachment, fondness for, devotion to, trust, homage, worship, piety, faith, or love. In Indian religions, it may refer to loving devotion for a personal God, a formless ultimate reality or an enlightened being. Bhakti is often a deeply emotional devotion based on a relationship between a devotee and the object of devotion. A devotee is a bhakta or bhakt.

Book · DOAB

Domestic devotion has become an increasingly important area of research in recent years, with the publication of a number of significant studies on the early modern period in particular. This Special Issue aims to build on these works and to expand their range, both geographically and chronologically. This collection focuses on lived religion and the devotional practices found in the domestic settings of late mediev…

Full text · Open Library

This is one of the most remarkable books ever written about religious experience. James captures the reader’s attention with vivid instances of religious experience collected from diverse sources, including classical religious texts, newspaper articles, and clinical studies. In this collection of Gifford lectures given in Scotland in 1901, James analyzes religious experience, using wonderful examples, penetrating ps…

Image · DPLA

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