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 58
... social life cannot be fully described in terms of patterned arrangements of role - sets , status - sets and status - sequences , because situations exist in which these social distinctions disappear and ' a direct , immediate and total ...
... social life cannot be fully described in terms of patterned arrangements of role - sets , status - sets and status - sequences , because situations exist in which these social distinctions disappear and ' a direct , immediate and total ...
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... social life which give rise to it he calls anti - structure . Whereas in tribal societies anti - structure is expressed in rites of passage , in more complex societies with historical religions it seems primarily to be expressed in ...
... social life which give rise to it he calls anti - structure . Whereas in tribal societies anti - structure is expressed in rites of passage , in more complex societies with historical religions it seems primarily to be expressed in ...
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... social relations is preserved in pilgrimage ( Eickelman , 1976 ; Sallnow , 1981 ; Van der Veer , 1984 ) . Sallnow , for example , argues that in fact in Andean pilgrimage a new arena is created in which social interactions take place ex ...
... social relations is preserved in pilgrimage ( Eickelman , 1976 ; Sallnow , 1981 ; Van der Veer , 1984 ) . Sallnow , for example , argues that in fact in Andean pilgrimage a new arena is created in which social interactions take place ex ...
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Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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