People Trees: Worship of Trees in Northern India

by David L. Haberman

Book Overview

People Trees is 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 in abundance among all segments of society. In the past, tree worship was regarded by many Western anthropologists and scholars of religion as a prime example of childish animism or primitive religion. More recently, this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199929165
• ISBN13: 9780199929160
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"