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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Page 91
... force but are in fact this god or force itself . To utter a mantra in the proper way is to manipulate a particular divine cosmic force . Because all sounds directly evolve from Ram , Ramaite mantras constitute the most important and ...
... force but are in fact this god or force itself . To utter a mantra in the proper way is to manipulate a particular divine cosmic force . Because all sounds directly evolve from Ram , Ramaite mantras constitute the most important and ...
Page 108
... force ' from within ' that encourages sadhus to accept a certain group identity . This force acts to create what we may call spiritual kin - groups which serve as vehicles for 108 Gods on Earth.
... force ' from within ' that encourages sadhus to accept a certain group identity . This force acts to create what we may call spiritual kin - groups which serve as vehicles for 108 Gods on Earth.
Page 227
... force anything upon pilgrims coming from places as far away as Rawalpindi . It was the British who had to enforce ... forces in the mutiny , Bhawani Singh , as a disappointed claimant to the throne , had thrown in his lot with the ...
... force anything upon pilgrims coming from places as far away as Rawalpindi . It was the British who had to enforce ... forces in the mutiny , Bhawani Singh , as a disappointed claimant to the throne , had thrown in his lot with the ...
Contents
Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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