The Camphor Flame : Popular Hinduism and Society in India - Revised and Expanded Edition /

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Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans is a central theme of this rich and accessible study of popular Hin...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fuller, C. J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Hinduism > India.
Religion and sociology > India.
RELIGION / Hinduism / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • MAPS AND TABLES
  • PREFACE TO THE REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION
  • PREFACE
  • NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
  • NOTE ON DOCUMENTATION
  • Chapter 1. POPULAR HINDUISM AND INDIAN SOCIETY
  • Chapter 2. GODS AND GODDESSES
  • Chapter 3. WORSHIP
  • Chapter 4. SACRIFICE
  • Chapter 5. RITUALS O F KINGSHIP
  • Chapter 6. RITUALS OF THE VILLAGE
  • Chapter 7. DEVOTIONALIST MOVEMENTS
  • Chapter 8. DEVOTIONALISM , GODDESSES, AND WOMEN
  • Chapter 9. PILGRIMAGE
  • Chapter 10. MISFORTUNE
  • Chapter 11. CONCLUSION
  • Afterword POPULAR HINDUISM AND HINDU NATIONALISM
  • APPENDIX THE HINDU CALENDAR
  • GLOSSARY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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