Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage CentreBloomsbury Academic, 1988 - 310 pages A detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values can reflect political and economic processes. |
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... course from this book should be extremely well-prepared to take more advanced probability courses and also courses ... course that primarily teaches univariate probability, a course that caters to students who have already had some ...
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... course research. With regard to the scope of this field of research, it was stated in the previous chapter that life course research addresses its subject matter on three analytically distinguishable levels: on the level of individual ...
... course research. With regard to the scope of this field of research, it was stated in the previous chapter that life course research addresses its subject matter on three analytically distinguishable levels: on the level of individual ...
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Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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