Sons of Shiva

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Sons of Shiva
Directed by
Production
company
Film Study Center at Harvard University
Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources
Release date
  • 1985 (1985)
Running time
29 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Sons of Shiva is a 1985 American documentary film by ethnographic filmmaker Robert Gardner and Askos Ostor, about the worship of the God Shiva, features practices of Hindu worship and devotion, a four-day Gajan ceremony, a Sacred Thread ceremony in Bishnupur and Baul singers of Bengal. [1] [2] It was the first film of "Pleasing God" trilogy of films about Hindu worship produced by Harvard's Film Study Center. It was followed by Forest of Bliss (1986) set in Benaras (Varanasi). [3]

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References

  1. Sons of Shiva der.org.
  2. Sons of Shiva WorldCat
  3. Sons of Shiva Archived 2008-11-21 at the Wayback Machine Robert Gardner website.