Culture Religion and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia /

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Culture, Religion, and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia explores how the idea of the home is repurposed or re-envisioned in relation to experiences of modernity, urbanization, conflict, migration and displacement. It considers how these processes are reflected in rituals, beliefs and social prac...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Ponniah, James, 1969- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sacred space > South Asia.
Space and time > Social aspects > South Asia.
Home > South Asia > Religious aspects.
Home > South Asia.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Brian K. Pennington and Amy L. Allocco
  • Introduction : homes and spaces under transformation / James Ponniah and Amitha Santiago
  • The memsahib and her home in the Indian colony : a shadow of the political realm in the domestic sphere? / Rituparna Ray Chowdhury
  • Home and sacred place in the letters of Gertrude Sovik : a Norwegian-American in China / L. DeAne Lagerquist
  • Old identities in a new space : the role of Hindu priests in making diasporic communities feel at home in Mumbai / Usha R. Vijailakshmi
  • The Ramakrishna movement in Japan as seen through the activities of the Nippon Vēdānta Society / Midori Horiuchi
  • Reconfiguring home : cuisinic negotiations of religion, culture, and identity in Marsha Mehran's Pomegranate soup / Lisa John Mundackal
  • Searching for the quintessential home : home-making and trans-identity / S. Susan Deborah
  • Pushing boundaries : negotiations of power in the domestic space / Kochurani Abraham
  • Women make it work : the story of inter-religious marriages in urban India / James Ponniah
  • Women and the "bratas" : the practice of vows among rural women in Bengal / Trayee Sinha
  • Bayit Ze Isha : housing the body of the woman through spatializing metaphors / Amitha Santiago
  • Contextualizing place in Sri Lanka through popular literature / Dilini Wijeweera, Surangi Gunawardena, and Dimantha Weliange
  • Terra firma and transcendent space : a hagiographic study of "Arunachala" in Sri Ramana Maharishi's life and works / V. Bharathi Harishankar

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