David Kinsley

Profesor David Robert Kinsley (1939-2000)

David Kinsley s-a născut în Holyoke, Massachusetts, în 25 Aprilie 1939. A absolvit cu succes Drew University în 1961, Theological Seminary în 1964 și University of Chicago în 1970. David a fost captivat de uimitoarea diversitate a experiențelor religioase umane. Viața lui s-a intersectat cu viețile a nenumărați oameni cu credințe diferite. A fost fascinat în special de Hinduism și de-a lungul vieții a efectuat numeroase călătorii în India pentru a studia festivalurile și ritualurile specifice zeilor și zeițelor Hinduse. La McMaster University, unde și-a desfășurat activitatea pentru mai bine de 30 de ani, a creat și dezvoltat cursuri despre tradițiile religioase străvechi sau contemporane. Ca profesor, David și-a ajutat elevii să-și dezvolte respectul și înțelegerea pentru culturi care au practici religioase diferite. Susținut constant de soția sa Cary, el a scris șapte cărți fundamentale care acum sunt documente de referință în universitățile din întreaga lume. Bibliografia pe care o veți găsi mai jos oferă o idee cuprinzătoare despre multitudinea de domenii care i-au stârnit interesul.

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1975 The Sword and the Flute -- Krisna and Kali: Dark Visions of the Terrible and the Sublime in Hindu Mythology. Berkeley: University of California Press; paperback edition,

1977 German translation, Flöte und Schwert. Berne: Scherz Verlag,

1979 Indian edition, Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1975.

1979 The Divine Player: A Study of Krsna Lila. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.

1982 Hinduism: A Cultural Perspective. Prentice-Hall Series in World Religions. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall; second edition, 1993.

1986 Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press; paperback edition 1988; German translation, Indische Göttinnen. Frankfurt: Insel Verlag, 1990.

1989 The Goddesses Mirror: Visions of the Divine from East and West. Albany: State University of New York Press. 1995 Ecology and Religion: Ecological Spirituality in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

1996 Health, Healing and Religion: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.1997Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas. Berkeley: University of California Press. Articles 1972 The taming of the shrew: On the history of the Goddess Kali. Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses 1: 328-38.

1972 Without Krsna there is no song. History of Religions 2: 149-80.

1974 Through the looking glass: Divine madness in the Hindu religious tradition. History of Religions 4: 270-305. 1974-75 Creation as play in Hindu spirituality. Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses 4: 108-19.

1975 Freedom from death in the worship of Kali. Numen 22: 183-207.

1977 The death that conquers death: Dying to the world in medieval Hinduism. In Frank Reynolds and Earle Waugh (eds.), Religious Encounters with Death, 97-108. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.

1978 The portrait of the Goddess in the Devi-mahatmya. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 46: 489-506.

1980 Devotion as an alternative to marriage in the lives of some Hindu women devotees. Journal of Asian and African Studies 14: 83-93.

1981 Devotion as an alternative to marriage in the lives of some Hindu women devotees. In Jayant Lele (ed.), Tradition and Modernity in Bhakti Movements, 83-93. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

1982 Blood and death out of place: Reflections on the Goddess Kali. In John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff (eds.), The Divine Consort: Radha and the Goddesses in India, 144-52. Berkeley Religious Studies Series, 3. Berkeley: Graduate Theological Union. Series in Comparative Religion.

1982 The image of the divine and the status of women in the Devi-bhagavata-purana. Anima 9: 50-56.

1982 The motherhood of God as expressed in the Goddess Kali. Anima 9: 131-42.

1991 Reflections on ecological themes in Hinduism. Journal of Dharma 16: 229-45.

1993 Mother Goddesses and culture Goddesses. In V. Subramaniam (ed.), Mother Goddess and Other Goddesses, 65-74. New Delhi: Ajanta Publications.

1998 Learning the story of the land: Reflections on the liberating power of geography and pilgrimage in the Hindu tradition. In Lance E. Nelson (ed.),

Purifying the Earthly Body of God: Religion and Ecology in Hindu India, 225-46. Albany: State University of New York Press.