Uprising of the fools : pilgrimage as moral protest in contemporary India /

The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious pilgrimage. Millions of participants gather sacred water from the Ganga and carry it across hundreds of miles to dispense as offerings in Śiva shrines. These devotees - called bhola, gullible or fools, and seen as miscreants by many Indians - are...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Singh, Vikash, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2017.
Colección:South Asia in motion.
Temas:
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages > India > Haridwār.
Religion and social status > India.
Capitalism > Moral and ethical aspects > India.
Pèlerinages hindous > Inde > Hardwār.
Religion et statut social > Inde.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
Capitalism > Moral and ethical aspects.
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Religion and social status.
Religion > Economic aspects.
India > Religion > Economic aspects.
India > Religious life and customs.
Inde > Religion > Aspect économique.
India.
India > Haridwār.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : illegitimate religion
  • Mastering uncertainty : performance and recognition in religion
  • "Everything is a gift, Bhole" : custom and the ethics of care
  • Ominous signs : of dread, desires, and determination
  • Damning corpses : violence, religious or secular?
  • Caste and the informal economy : subversive aesthetics of popular religion
  • Wishful nightmares : triumphant neoliberalism and the resistances of religion
  • War, nation, and the human as a thing.

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