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Hindu gods in an American landscape : changing perceptions of Indian sacred images in the global age / E. Allen Richardson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Inc., [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781476632612
  • 1476632618
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hindu gods in an American landscape.DDC classification:
  • 294.5/37 23
LOC classification:
  • BL1215.S9
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources: Summary: In India, Hindu images have been cast for millennia through the lost wax process and brought to life by priests, becoming not merely venerated icons but actual embodiments of gods. Second and third generation Hindu Americans have increasingly adopted a more worldly perspective toward religious objects, viewing them as symbolic rather than actual presences of the deity. The author traces the origins of this important shift, and examines Western attitudes regarding sacred objects, as well as the complex layering of traditional and modern Hindu attitudes in a globalized world.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 20, 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In India, Hindu images have been cast for millennia through the lost wax process and brought to life by priests, becoming not merely venerated icons but actual embodiments of gods. Second and third generation Hindu Americans have increasingly adopted a more worldly perspective toward religious objects, viewing them as symbolic rather than actual presences of the deity. The author traces the origins of this important shift, and examines Western attitudes regarding sacred objects, as well as the complex layering of traditional and modern Hindu attitudes in a globalized world.