Cargando…
Religion and Commodification : Merchandizing' Diasporic Hinduism.
Sustaining a Hindu universe at an everyday life level requires an extraordinary range of religious specialists and ritual paraphernalia. At the level of practice, devotional Hinduism is an embodied religion and grounded in a materiality, that makes the presence of specific physical objects (which wh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis Ltd.,
2010.
|
| Colección: | Routledge research in religion, media and culture.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps and Figures; List of Plates; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; 1 Everyday Hindu Religiosity and Ritual Objects; 2 'Mapping' Spaces and Objects: 'Diaspora Hinduism' and 'Puja Items'; 3 Homes for Gods: Prayer Altars for Family Shrines; 4 Visual Representations of Hindu Divinity: Disentangling 'Material' from 'Deity' from 'Commodity'; 5 Flowers for Worship, Flowers for Sale: Straddling the 'Sacred' and the 'Secular'; 6 Religion and Commodification: What Are the Possibilities for Enchantment?; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.