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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... PILGRIMAGE CENTRE PETER VAN DER VEER LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS MONOGRAPHS ON SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY Volume 59 Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2004 by Berg Publishers Published 2020 by Routledge.
... PILGRIMAGE CENTRE PETER VAN DER VEER LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS MONOGRAPHS ON SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY Volume 59 Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2004 by Berg Publishers Published 2020 by Routledge.
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... groups of religious specialists, the Ramanandi monks and the Brahman priests. Central to my investigation is the question of how, and to what extent, their social identity is formed by forces operating within these groups and forces ...
... groups of religious specialists, the Ramanandi monks and the Brahman priests. Central to my investigation is the question of how, and to what extent, their social identity is formed by forces operating within these groups and forces ...
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... groups. Nagas are fighting sadhus who are trained in the use of violence and live in fortified temples. Rasiks are sadhus specialized in a kind of 'sweet devotion' which centres on the worship of images in temples. They emphasize the ...
... groups. Nagas are fighting sadhus who are trained in the use of violence and live in fortified temples. Rasiks are sadhus specialized in a kind of 'sweet devotion' which centres on the worship of images in temples. They emphasize the ...
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... groups. In that period a professional group of local Brahmans with caste-like boundaries, called the Gangaputras, was formed. Simultaneously, a group of Bhareriya outsiders, known as 'spurious Brahmans' in the contemporary British ...
... groups. In that period a professional group of local Brahmans with caste-like boundaries, called the Gangaputras, was formed. Simultaneously, a group of Bhareriya outsiders, known as 'spurious Brahmans' in the contemporary British ...
Contents
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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