Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage CentreRoutledge, 2020 M12 17 - 310 pages This book is the result of the long interest in Hindu pilgrimage which was encouraged during his study of Sanskrit and Hinduism It provided a detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values can reflect political and economic processes. This is Volume 59 of the London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology. |
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The conjunction of time and place | |
Problems and Perspectives | |
Devotion and Ascetisicm | |
The sacred as a profession | |
Conclusion | |
Rules and regulations of Hanumangarhi | |
Bibliography | |
Glossary | |
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