the beloved elephant-headed god, during the annual celebration of Ganesh Chaturthi. This vibrant and joyous festival is not just a religious event; it’s a cultural extravaganza that unites people from all walks of life. Ganesh Chaturthi, also called Vinayaka Chaturthi...
To summarize, I acknowledge that some festivals have lost their original meanings. However, the effort to reinvigorate our culture has made significant impacts, thus the traditional and religious of festivals will be preserved into the future. Corrected essay: A festival is the celebration of an ...
pollution, political disorder and venality. The ties to yore, to myth, to custom and to religion may be a matter of worship or just a question of habit or a mere acquiescence to an insistent mother-in-law. In any case, Nepal’s festivals are not a matter that can...
“Herbert’s passionate engagement with the Transcendent––among us, within us, over-against us––was not theoretical or abstract, but intimate and experiential, employing the first-person form of lyric poetry to open a clearing where his inmost feelings could show themselves to both the speaker...
The French Bishops’ Conference slammed the tableau as a “mockery and derision of Christianity.” Mike Johnson, the right-wing Evangelical Speaker of the House in the United States Congress, decreed the performance “shocking and insulting to Christian people around the world.” The event’s arti...
3 In response, the following essay focuses on the production of the public itself in material practices of print. To this end, it is worth summarizing briefly Jürgen Habermas’s influential account of The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. He explains how the exchange of newspapers,...
While music plays a significant role in many of the world’s religions, it is in the Hindu religion that one finds one of the closest bonds between music and religious experience extending for millennia. The recitation of the syllable OM and the chanting of Sanskrit Mantras and hymns from th...