The Camphor Flame Popular Hinduism and Society in India C J Fuller English

By: Fuller C JMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New Jersey Princeton University Press 2004 Description: viii-343 p. ; Soft bound 15.5 * 23 cmISBN: 978-0691-12048-5; 0-691-12048-XDDC classification: 294.50954

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Chapter 1 POPULAR HINDUISM AND INDIAN SOCIETY Chapter 2 GODS AND GODDESSES Chapter 3 WORSHIP Chapter 4 SACRIFICE Chapter 5 RITUALS OF 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

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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Chapter 1 POPULAR HINDUISM AND INDIAN SOCIETY
Chapter 2 GODS AND GODDESSES
Chapter 3 WORSHIP
Chapter 4 SACRIFICE
Chapter 5 RITUALS OF 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

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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