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 108
... remains one's life - long guru and a spiritual family ( parivār ) is formed by the disciples of one guru . This is not to say that the initiated tyagi remains with his family for the rest of his life . He may roam on his own accord or ...
... remains one's life - long guru and a spiritual family ( parivār ) is formed by the disciples of one guru . This is not to say that the initiated tyagi remains with his family for the rest of his life . He may roam on his own accord or ...
Page 139
... remains the primary one . " 26 The social significance of this distinction is that by becoming a naga one does not lose one's affiliation to one's spiritual family and community . A Ramanandi remains a Ramanandi and a Madhva Gauriya a ...
... remains the primary one . " 26 The social significance of this distinction is that by becoming a naga one does not lose one's affiliation to one's spiritual family and community . A Ramanandi remains a Ramanandi and a Madhva Gauriya a ...
Page 150
... remains , however , the difficult and fascinating question of how it happened that the Dashanamis , who were clearly in favour in the nawab's court , lost their position in what was for some time the nawabi capital and thereafter lay ...
... remains , however , the difficult and fascinating question of how it happened that the Dashanamis , who were clearly in favour in the nawab's court , lost their position in what was for some time the nawabi capital and thereafter lay ...
Contents
Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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