Sacred Ecology : Cosmologies, Ecologies and Rituals in Colonial India (1886-1936) (Hardcover)

Introduction: Sacred Ecology: Cosmological Connections Between Humans, the Non-Humans and the Super-Human 1. The Theology of Primitive Religion 2. Water Worship in India and the Western Countries 3. Folk Lore of Bombay Wells 4. The Cult of the Lake Goddess of Orissa 5. Sacred Trees of the Hindus 6. A Note on the Worship of the Pipal Tree 7. On the Tulsi Plant 8. A Note on the Dhatri Puja as performed by the Hindustani residents in Calcutta 9. A note on Fire-Worship among the Ancient Arabs 10. Dream Plants 11. The Thunder Myths of the Primitive Races 12. Sun Worship in Chittagong Nursery Rhymes 13. The Full Moon Festival of the Tripuris 14. On a Tibetan Weather Superstition 15. The Crocodile in Bengali Folklore 16. On Some Superstitious Beliefs about the Lizard 17. A Note on Dakshina Raya 18. Notes on the Ominous Birds 19. The Cosmological Myths of the Birhors and its Santali and American Indian parallels 20. Some Curious Folklore about Precious Stones