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When a goddess dies : worshipping Ma Anandamayi after her death / Orianne Aymard.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780199368631
  • 0199368635
  • 9780199368648
  • 0199368643
Other title:
  • Worshipping Ma Anandamayi after her death
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: When a goddess diesDDC classification:
  • 294.5/61 23
LOC classification:
  • BL1175.A49 A86 2014eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
""Cover""; ""When a Goddess Dies""; ""When a Goddess Dies: Worshipping MÄ? Ä€nandamayÄ« after Her Death""; ""Copyright""; ""A God Died Yesterday""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""When a Goddess Dies""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Aspects of the Postmortem Cult of the Guru""; ""2 The Cult of Relics in Hinduism""; ""3 Death of the Guru""; ""4 Presence of the Guru""; ""5 Sustainability of the Postmortem Cult""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Summary: Calling on concepts of religious experiences and institutionalisation, this book explores the devotional movement of the enduring religious figure, Ānandamayī Mā, through the compelling question of what happens to a charismatic movement after the death (mahāsamādhi) of the guru. In her lifetime Mā Ānandamayī became arguably the most famous female religious leader in India, counting hundreds of thousands of followers, including Kamala Nehru, and her daughter Indira Gandhi, and was venerated in turn as a guru and avatar, incarnation of the Divine on Earth.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)755841

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Calling on concepts of religious experiences and institutionalisation, this book explores the devotional movement of the enduring religious figure, Ānandamayī Mā, through the compelling question of what happens to a charismatic movement after the death (mahāsamādhi) of the guru. In her lifetime Mā Ānandamayī became arguably the most famous female religious leader in India, counting hundreds of thousands of followers, including Kamala Nehru, and her daughter Indira Gandhi, and was venerated in turn as a guru and avatar, incarnation of the Divine on Earth.

""Cover""; ""When a Goddess Dies""; ""When a Goddess Dies: Worshipping MÄ? Ä€nandamayÄ« after Her Death""; ""Copyright""; ""A God Died Yesterday""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""When a Goddess Dies""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Aspects of the Postmortem Cult of the Guru""; ""2 The Cult of Relics in Hinduism""; ""3 Death of the Guru""; ""4 Presence of the Guru""; ""5 Sustainability of the Postmortem Cult""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

English.