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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... spiritual and a ritual sense ( Van der Veer , 1984 ) . It combines a Brahmanical ritual complex , centred on the sacred river Sarayu , with a Ramanandi spiritual complex , centred on the places connected with Ram's life . The ...
... spiritual and a ritual sense ( Van der Veer , 1984 ) . It combines a Brahmanical ritual complex , centred on the sacred river Sarayu , with a Ramanandi spiritual complex , centred on the places connected with Ram's life . The ...
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... spiritual journey of the soul to God . The story is that of a lila , a sport or play of God , in which the central plot concerns the exile of Ram , Sita and Lakshman from their kingdom of Ayodhya , Sita's abduction by the ten - headed ...
... spiritual journey of the soul to God . The story is that of a lila , a sport or play of God , in which the central plot concerns the exile of Ram , Sita and Lakshman from their kingdom of Ayodhya , Sita's abduction by the ten - headed ...
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... spiritual genealogy of Ramanuja . This meant that the followers of Ramanand were ' really ' Shri - Vaishnavas . A North Indian group of devotees of Ram was thus connected with an important South Indian Vishnuite sampradaya , the ...
... spiritual genealogy of Ramanuja . This meant that the followers of Ramanand were ' really ' Shri - Vaishnavas . A North Indian group of devotees of Ram was thus connected with an important South Indian Vishnuite sampradaya , the ...
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Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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