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The life of Hinduism

John Stratton Hawley and Vasudha Narayanan
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page ix)
  • A Note on Transliteration (page xi)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • PART I: WORSHIP
    • 1. The Experience: Approaching God (Stephen P. Huyler, page 33)
    • 2. The Deity: The Image of God (Diana L. Eck, page 42)
    • 3. The Miraculous: The Birth of a Shrine (Shrivatsa Goswami and Margaret H. Case, page 53)
  • PART II: THE LIFE CYCLE
    • 4. Marriage: Women in India (Doranne Jacobson, page 63)
    • 5. Death beyond Death: The Ochre Robe (Agehananda Bharati, page 76)
  • PART III: FESTIVAL
    • 6. Divali: The Festival of Lights (Om Lata Bahadur, page 91)
    • 7. Holi: The Feast of Love (McKim Marriott, page 99)
  • PART IV: PERFORMANCE
    • 8. An Open-Air Ramayana: Ramlila, the Audience Experience (Linda Hess, page 115)
    • 9. A Ramayana on Air: "All in the (Raghu) Family," A Video Epic in Cultural Context (Philip Lutgendorf, page 140)
    • 10. Possession by Durga: The Mother Who Possesses (Kathleen M. Erndl, page 158)
  • PART V: GURUS
    • 11. Anandamayi Ma: God Came as a Woman (Lisa Lassell Hallstrom, page 173)
    • 12. Radhasoami: The Healing Offer (Sudhir Kakar, page 184)
  • PART VI: CASTE
    • 13. A Dalit Poet-Saint: Ravidas (John Stratton Hawley, with Mark Juergensmeyer, page 199)
    • 14. A Brahmin Woman: Revenge Herself (Lalitambika Antarjanam, page 218)
  • PART VII: DIASPORA
    • 15. Hinduism in Pittsburgh: Creating the South Indian "Hindu" Experience in the United States (Vasudha Narayanan, page 231)
    • 16. A Diasporic Hindu Creed: Some Basic Features of Hinduism (Sitansu S. Chakravarti, page 249)
  • PART VIII: IDENTITY
    • 17. Militant Hinduism: Ayodhya and the Momentum of Hindu Nationalism (John Stratton Hawley, page 257)
    • 18. Tolerant Hinduism: Shared Ritual Spaces—Hindus and Muslims at the Shrine of Shahul Hamid (Vasudha Naryanan, page 266)
    • 19. Hinduism for Hindu: Taking Back Hindu Studies (Shrinivas Tilak, page 271)
    • 20. Hinduism with Others: Interlogue (Laurie L. Patton and Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, with Kala Acharya, page 288)
  • List of Contributors (page 301)
  • Index (page 307)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAS 66.4 (2007): 1193-1195 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20203287
JLR 24.1 (2008): 251-155 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27639149
JAAR 76.3 (2008): 714-747 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25484056
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Published: c2006
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520249134 (hardcover)
  • 9780520940079 (ebook)
  • 9780520249141 (paper)
Series
  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
Subject
  • Religion
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