Gods in the world : placemaking and healing in the Himalayas
Aftab Jassal
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
| Omfang | 244 sider : illustrasjoner, kart
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| Opplysninger | Note on Transliteration -- Prelude: The Healing Room -- Introduction: Textures of Divine Presence -- 1. Making "Dev-bhumi," the Land of the Gods -- 2. Affliction and Healing -- 3. Political Divinities in the Village Square -- 4. Undoing Love: Ghost Affliction and Patrilocal Marriage -- 5. Out of Place: Lives of Oracles and Priests -- 6. Playing in the Rain: Scenes from a Himalayan Pilgrimage -- Epilogue: Beyond Belief -- Indian-Language Words with Diacritics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.. - "India, cultivate with divine beings and traces how these practices, such as rituals of divine embodiment or possession, have been both marginal and controversial in relation to Brahminical Hinduism, which emphasizes temple worship. Further, the healers, mediums, and other specialists who mediate relations between devotees and divinities belong to caste-oppressed, or Dalit, communities. They are heralded for their skills as musicians, drummers, oral narrators, and performers, but in their everyday lives they also face immense discrimination from both caste-privileged communities and Brahmin priests, who contest their knowledge and authority. Foregrounding the voices and perspectives of communities that since the colonial period have been labeled "primitive" and not "proper" Hindus, Gods in the World explores the contradictions of everyday life and religion"--
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| ISBN | 9780231214964. - 9780231214971
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