- Hardcover: 206 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Religion; 1st edition (Nov 20 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0060578238
- ISBN-13: 978-0060578237
- Product Dimensions: 27.8 x 22.3 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #902,328 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
The stunning photographs in Living Faith are the result of over a decade and a half of travel and observation. From the cities, small towns and villages of India -- a country of almost unparalleled diversity where every major religion of the world has found a home -- Dinesh Khanna brings us images of faith as it endures in everyday life. Priests light up the night on the ghats of Varanasi in honor of Shiva; Sufis sing ecstatic love songs to Allah at the tomb of Nizamuddin Auliya; young boys in Ladakh prepare for the austere life of a Buddhist Lama; and devotees offer wax models of what they desire to Mary at her church in Mumbai. Meanwhile, on the highways and lanes of India, taxi and truck drivers carry on their dashboards little shrines to their gods; Jain nuns walk barefoot for miles on an eternal pilgrimage; and people stop along busy roads to offer prayers at modest temples and tombs.
Living Faith is an intimate, revealing record of a deeply spiritual way of life. It acknowledges the strength of private worship and shared faith, which ultimately transcends the more visible but short-lived realities of discord.
About the Author
Dinesh Khanna, one of the most gifted color photographers in India, worked in advertising before taking up photography in 1990. Since then, exhibitions of his work have been held in India and the UK. His first book, Goa Bazaar, was published by Viking India in 2001. He lives in Delhi with his wife and two daughters.
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Just beautiful..., Oct 20 2005
By Jean L. Kloth "pushkins" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Living Faith: Windows Into the Sacred Life of India (Hardcover)
This book is drop-dead gorgeous. It is well-composed and laid out so that you sit and look through it without getting tired of it or over-saturated with images.
And it is touching too. I think it has a valid point to make about the state of worship in the West. WHy don't I have an altar in my front yard? WHy don't I go get holy water to consecrate my home each morning? Why aren't these things a concern to me? I live in an affluent world where survival is not a moment-to-moment struggle - why don't my thoughts turn more to worship?
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