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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... society as static , timeless and spaceless , and dominated by the Brahmans as guardians of the sacred order of society ( Cohn , 1968 : 7 ) .1 There can be no doubt that this picture has haunted social research on Indian religion and society ...
... society as static , timeless and spaceless , and dominated by the Brahmans as guardians of the sacred order of society ( Cohn , 1968 : 7 ) .1 There can be no doubt that this picture has haunted social research on Indian religion and society ...
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... society : ' One might say that all that appears to be social is in fact religious and that all that appears religious is in fact social ' ( Dumont , 1970 : 16 ) . Religion in the sense of , for example , the Hindu belief in gods , he ...
... society : ' One might say that all that appears to be social is in fact religious and that all that appears religious is in fact social ' ( Dumont , 1970 : 16 ) . Religion in the sense of , for example , the Hindu belief in gods , he ...
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... society . In a way Turner's contribution is to be seen as an attempt to get away from functionalist arguments about the representation of society by religion , but in fact he perpetuates its difficulties in another form . Several ...
... society . In a way Turner's contribution is to be seen as an attempt to get away from functionalist arguments about the representation of society by religion , but in fact he perpetuates its difficulties in another form . Several ...
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Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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