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 xiv
... interpretation of the caste system , in which the purity of the Brahman priests gives them the highest social status ( Dumont , 1972 ) . Both the ideology and Dumont's interpretations are , however , contradicted by social reality ...
... interpretation of the caste system , in which the purity of the Brahman priests gives them the highest social status ( Dumont , 1972 ) . Both the ideology and Dumont's interpretations are , however , contradicted by social reality ...
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... interpretation of Ayodhya as the place of Noah is not surprising , at least to the older Hindu , who will easily remember that Hindus and Muslims visited one another's sacred places , each with their own modes of interpretation . It is ...
... interpretation of Ayodhya as the place of Noah is not surprising , at least to the older Hindu , who will easily remember that Hindus and Muslims visited one another's sacred places , each with their own modes of interpretation . It is ...
Page 56
... interpretation of Sanskrit texts . The reference to the textual tradition is extremely problematic . In the first ... interpretations of men like Augustine are of great importance to modern Christianity , but no one would even attempt to ...
... interpretation of Sanskrit texts . The reference to the textual tradition is extremely problematic . In the first ... interpretations of men like Augustine are of great importance to modern Christianity , but no one would even attempt to ...
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Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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