David L Haberman
Biographic Data
| ID | 101795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David L Haberman |
| GIVEN NAMES | David L |
| FAMILY NAME | Haberman |
| SIGNATURE | HABERMAN D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Water Beings
Louise Fowler-Smith, Sacred Trees of India
Louise Fowler-Smith, Sacred Trees of India: Adornment and Adoration as an Alternative to the Commodification of Nature (Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022), 320 pp., £77.99 (cloth), ISBN: 978-1-5275-8833-2
Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds
This informative book moves the field of religion and ecology in significant ways into dialogue with climate studies around the world.What the contributors present here is local knowledge that has global implications for our shared planetary future
Loving Stones
Loving Stones: Making the Impossible Possible in the Worship of Mount Govardhan is based on ethnographic and textual research with two major objectives. First, it is a study of the conceptions of and worshipful interactions with Mount Govardhan, a sacred mountain located in the Braj region of north-central India that has for centuries been considered an embodied form of Krishna. In this capacity it provides detailed information about the rich rel…
Loving Stones
Climate Change and the Art of Devotion
This is an excellent book that is well worth reading. Sugata Ray is a very good writer, and Climate Change and the Art of Devotion was impressively researched. This book adds to our understanding of both the fascinating religious and artistic world of Braj Vaishnavism as well as the emerging field of eco art history. In many ways, the latter subdiscipline of art history takes embodiment seriously and focuses on issues of material and materiality—…
Thirteen Theories of Human Nature
Drawing out the iconic in the aniconic
Natural entities such as rivers, trees, and mountains have long been worshiped in Hindu India as embodied forms of divinity. This essay examines the devotional tendency to anthropomorphize such aniconic objects as a way of bringing out their personality – in other words, to draw the iconic out of the aniconic. Primary attention is given to neem trees in Banaras – considered to be embodied forms of the goddess Śītalā – and stones from the celebrat…
People Trees
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 worshiped for millennia in India, and today tree worship continues there with abundance among all segments of society. In the past, tree worship was frequently regarded by many Western anthropologists and scholars of religion as a prime example of childish animism or primitive religion, while …
Tree Worship in India
People Trees
India
Journal Article India: A Sacred Geography Get access India: A Sacred Geography. By Diana L. Eck. Harmony Books, 2012. 559 pages. $27.00. David L. Haberman David L. Haberman Indiana University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 81, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 278–281, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfs088 Published: 18 December 2012
Faces in the Trees
Consideration of tree worship was once central to theories of religion, which tended to view this practice as a primitive form of anthropomorphic animism that has no place in a civilized modern world. How might we regard tree worship once it is liberated from the cultural evolutionary views of the nineteenth century? Neem trees have long been associated with the goddess Shitala in Hindu religious culture. This essay examines the worship of indivi…
River of Love in an Age of Pollution
Celebrated as an aquatic form of divinity for thousands of years, the Yamuna is one of India’s most sacred rivers. A prominent feature of north Indian culture, the Yamuna is conceptualized as a goddess flowing with liquid love—yet today it is severely polluted, the victim of fast-paced industrial development. This fascinating and beautifully written book investigates the stories, theology, and religious practices connected with this river goddess…
River of Love in an Age of Pollution
Devoted to the Goddess
Acting as a Way of Salvation
Devī
The Vernacular Veda
When God Is a Customer
A cross-cultural adventure
It was very rare for a Westerner to cross over into traditional Hindu culture during the British period of Indian history. One figure to do so, however, was Ronald Nixon, who later came to be known by the name Krishnaprem and was recognized as a Hindu saint by many Indians of his day. This paper explores the life and thought of Krishnaprem by examining both his own published works and private sources. It investigates the way in which he negotiate…
On Trial
Acting as a Way of Salvation
Entering the Cosmic Drama
Imitating the Masters
IMITATING THE MASTERS: PROBLEMS IN INCONGRUITY Get access DAVID L. HABERMAN DAVID L. HABERMAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIII, Issue 1, March 1985, Pages 41–50, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIII.1.41 Published: 01 March 1985
River of Love in an Age of Pollution
Drawing out the iconic in the aniconic
Natural entities such as rivers, trees, and mountains have long been worshiped in Hindu India as embodied forms of divinity. This essay examines the devotional tendency to anthropomorphize such aniconic objects as a way of bringing out their personality – in other words, to draw the iconic out of the aniconic. Primary attention is given to neem trees in Banaras – considered to be embodied forms of the goddess Śītalā – and stones from the celebrat…
On Trial
Entering the Cosmic Drama
Imitating the Masters
IMITATING THE MASTERS: PROBLEMS IN INCONGRUITY Get access DAVID L. HABERMAN DAVID L. HABERMAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIII, Issue 1, March 1985, Pages 41–50, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIII.1.41 Published: 01 March 1985
Acting as a Way of Salvation
A cross-cultural adventure
It was very rare for a Westerner to cross over into traditional Hindu culture during the British period of Indian history. One figure to do so, however, was Ronald Nixon, who later came to be known by the name Krishnaprem and was recognized as a Hindu saint by many Indians of his day. This paper explores the life and thought of Krishnaprem by examining both his own published works and private sources. It investigates the way in which he negotiate…
On Trial
The Vernacular Veda
When God Is a Customer
Devī
Acting as a Way of Salvation
Devoted to the Goddess
River of Love in an Age of Pollution
Celebrated as an aquatic form of divinity for thousands of years, the Yamuna is one of India’s most sacred rivers. A prominent feature of north Indian culture, the Yamuna is conceptualized as a goddess flowing with liquid love—yet today it is severely polluted, the victim of fast-paced industrial development. This fascinating and beautifully written book investigates the stories, theology, and religious practices connected with this river goddess…
River of Love in an Age of Pollution
Faces in the Trees
Consideration of tree worship was once central to theories of religion, which tended to view this practice as a primitive form of anthropomorphic animism that has no place in a civilized modern world. How might we regard tree worship once it is liberated from the cultural evolutionary views of the nineteenth century? Neem trees have long been associated with the goddess Shitala in Hindu religious culture. This essay examines the worship of indivi…
People Trees
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 worshiped for millennia in India, and today tree worship continues there with abundance among all segments of society. In the past, tree worship was frequently regarded by many Western anthropologists and scholars of religion as a prime example of childish animism or primitive religion, while …
Tree Worship in India
People Trees
India
Journal Article India: A Sacred Geography Get access India: A Sacred Geography. By Diana L. Eck. Harmony Books, 2012. 559 pages. $27.00. David L. Haberman David L. Haberman Indiana University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 81, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 278–281, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfs088 Published: 18 December 2012
Drawing out the iconic in the aniconic
Natural entities such as rivers, trees, and mountains have long been worshiped in Hindu India as embodied forms of divinity. This essay examines the devotional tendency to anthropomorphize such aniconic objects as a way of bringing out their personality – in other words, to draw the iconic out of the aniconic. Primary attention is given to neem trees in Banaras – considered to be embodied forms of the goddess Śītalā – and stones from the celebrat…
Thirteen Theories of Human Nature
Loving Stones
Loving Stones: Making the Impossible Possible in the Worship of Mount Govardhan is based on ethnographic and textual research with two major objectives. First, it is a study of the conceptions of and worshipful interactions with Mount Govardhan, a sacred mountain located in the Braj region of north-central India that has for centuries been considered an embodied form of Krishna. In this capacity it provides detailed information about the rich rel…
Loving Stones
Climate Change and the Art of Devotion
This is an excellent book that is well worth reading. Sugata Ray is a very good writer, and Climate Change and the Art of Devotion was impressively researched. This book adds to our understanding of both the fascinating religious and artistic world of Braj Vaishnavism as well as the emerging field of eco art history. In many ways, the latter subdiscipline of art history takes embodiment seriously and focuses on issues of material and materiality—…
Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworlds
This informative book moves the field of religion and ecology in significant ways into dialogue with climate studies around the world.What the contributors present here is local knowledge that has global implications for our shared planetary future
Louise Fowler-Smith, Sacred Trees of India
Louise Fowler-Smith, Sacred Trees of India: Adornment and Adoration as an Alternative to the Commodification of Nature (Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022), 320 pp., £77.99 (cloth), ISBN: 978-1-5275-8833-2
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Philosophy (15 works) · History (13 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (12 works) · Art (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Aesthetics (10 works) · Theology (9 works) · Worship (9 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (8 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (8 works)