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 70
... seems less rigid than Burghart argues . In Ayodhya Ramanandi sadhus not only sleep in houses of householders , but may even stay in them . They will , however , decline to eat the food cooked by householders . It would indeed be ...
... seems less rigid than Burghart argues . In Ayodhya Ramanandi sadhus not only sleep in houses of householders , but may even stay in them . They will , however , decline to eat the food cooked by householders . It would indeed be ...
Page 209
... seems , incidentally , to support Malamoud's interpretation of the ancient Indian sacrifice contra the argument of Heesterman and Gonda that the dakshina is just a particular case of the gift ( Malamoud , 1976 ) . " Performing some ...
... seems , incidentally , to support Malamoud's interpretation of the ancient Indian sacrifice contra the argument of Heesterman and Gonda that the dakshina is just a particular case of the gift ( Malamoud , 1976 ) . " Performing some ...
Page 288
... seems to be that ascetics are dangerous . They have great powers and may use them against others . The bad use of these powers makes an ascetic seem wicked or demonic , but here again the connotation seems to be dangerous rather than ...
... seems to be that ascetics are dangerous . They have great powers and may use them against others . The bad use of these powers makes an ascetic seem wicked or demonic , but here again the connotation seems to be dangerous rather than ...
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Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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