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The Camphor Flame : Popular Hinduism and Society in India - Revised and Expanded Edition / C. J. Fuller.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691186412
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.50954 23
LOC classification:
  • BL1150
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- MAPS AND TABLES -- PREFACE TO THE REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION -- PREFACE -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION -- NOTE ON DOCUMENTATION -- Chapter 1. POPULAR HINDUISM AND INDIAN SOCIETY -- Chapter 2. GODS AND GODDESSES -- Chapter 3. WORSHIP -- Chapter 4. SACRIFICE -- Chapter 5. RITUALS O F KINGSHIP -- Chapter 6. RITUALS OF THE VILLAGE -- Chapter 7. DEVOTIONALIST MOVEMENTS -- Chapter 8. DEVOTIONALISM , GODDESSES, AND WOMEN -- Chapter 9. PILGRIMAGE -- Chapter 10. MISFORTUNE -- Chapter 11. CONCLUSION -- Afterword POPULAR HINDUISM AND HINDU NATIONALISM -- APPENDIX THE HINDU CALENDAR -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans is a central theme of this rich and accessible study of popular Hinduism in the context of the society of contemporary India. Lucidly organized and skillfully written, The Camphor Flame brings clarity to an immensely complicated subject. C. J. Fuller combines ethnographic case studies with comparative anthropological analysis and draws on textual and historical scholarship as well. The book's new afterword brings the study up-to-date by examining the relationship between popular Hinduism and contemporary Hindu nationalism.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- MAPS AND TABLES -- PREFACE TO THE REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION -- PREFACE -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION -- NOTE ON DOCUMENTATION -- Chapter 1. POPULAR HINDUISM AND INDIAN SOCIETY -- Chapter 2. GODS AND GODDESSES -- Chapter 3. WORSHIP -- Chapter 4. SACRIFICE -- Chapter 5. RITUALS O F KINGSHIP -- Chapter 6. RITUALS OF THE VILLAGE -- Chapter 7. DEVOTIONALIST MOVEMENTS -- Chapter 8. DEVOTIONALISM , GODDESSES, AND WOMEN -- Chapter 9. PILGRIMAGE -- Chapter 10. MISFORTUNE -- Chapter 11. CONCLUSION -- Afterword POPULAR HINDUISM AND HINDU NATIONALISM -- APPENDIX THE HINDU CALENDAR -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans is a central theme of this rich and accessible study of popular Hinduism in the context of the society of contemporary India. Lucidly organized and skillfully written, The Camphor Flame brings clarity to an immensely complicated subject. C. J. Fuller combines ethnographic case studies with comparative anthropological analysis and draws on textual and historical scholarship as well. The book's new afterword brings the study up-to-date by examining the relationship between popular Hinduism and contemporary Hindu nationalism.

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