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Dealing with deities : the ritual vow in South Asia /
Annotation
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the deal with deities
- ways vows work in South Asia / Selva J. Raj and William P. Harman
- "The vow": a short story / Shankarrao Kharat
- Negotiating relationships with the goddess / William P. Harman
- Shared vows, shared space, and shared deities: vow rituals among Tamil Catholics in South India / Selva J. Raj
- Religious vows at the Shrine of Shahul Hamid / Vasudha Narayanan
- In the company of pirs: making vows, receiving favors at Bangladeshi Sufi shrines / Sufia Uddin
- Bara: Buddhist vows at Kataragama / Sunil Goonasekera
- Performing vows in diasporic contexts: Tamil Hindus, temples, and goddesses in Germany / Martin Baumann
- Singing a vow: devoting oneself to Shiva through song / Karen Pechilis
- Monastic vows and the Ramananda Sampraday / Ramdas Lamb
- Negotiating karma, merit, and liberation: vow-taking in the Jain tradition / M. Whitney Kelting
- Vows in the Sikh tradition / Louis E. Fenech and Pashaura Singh
- When vows fail to deliver what they promise: the case of Shyamavati / Tracy Pintchman
- Two critiques of women's vows / Jack E. Llewellyn
- Toward a typology of South Asian lay vows / Selva J. Raj and William P. Harman.