Sons of Shiva - PREVIEW

Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/sons-of-shiva.html Sons of Shiva is a sustained attempt to film a four-day ceremony concerned with the worship of Shiva. Devotees of the God Shiva are shown from the initial taking of the Sacred Thread through gradually intensifying action to a culmination in a variety of ascetic and self denying practices. Devotees are also shown in informal activities such as preparing food and listening to recitals of devotional songs by the famous mendicant Bauls of Bengal.

This film belongs to the Pleasing God series of films about how Hindus worship. These films are studies of the devotional practicies associated with three major deities of the Hindu pantheon. They were made in the small, historic town of Vishnupur, West Bengal - a town of temples, crafts and markets, the center of an old kingdom, and a place where daily life and worship are closely intertwined.

a film by Robert Gardner with Ákos Östör
from the Pleasing God series
distributed by Documentary Educational Resources

Category:

Education

Tags:

• India
• Bengal
• Shiva
• Vishnupur
• Hindu
• worship
• ceremony
• religion
• documentary
• anthropology
• film