Gods on Earth The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre 1st Edition by Peter Van Der Veer 184520302X 9781845203023

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ISBN 10: 184520302X 

ISBN 13: 9781845203023

Author: Peter Van Der Veer

This book is the result of the long interest in Hindu pilgrimage which was encouraged during his study of Sanskrit and Hinduism It provided a detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values can reflect political and economic processes. This is Volume 59 of the London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology.

Table of contents:

I Ayodhya: Time and Place

1 Introduction

2 Sarayu and the ghats

3 The presence of Ram

4 The conjunction of time and place

5 Ayodhya in history

II Problems and Perspectives

1 The study of meaning

2 Hinduism: the orientalist perspective

3 The study of a pilgrimage centre

III Devotion and Ascetisicm

1 Introduction

2 Tradition and Identity

3 Tyagis

4 Nagas

5 Rasiks

6 Conclusion: The Ramanandis, an open category

IV The sacred as a profession

1 Introduction

2 The ideal Brahman as an ideological construct

3 The formation of professional identities

4 Competition and Violence

5 Conclusion: Values and Existence

V Conclusion

Appendix 1 Kanak Bhavan, an example of a temple built by a raja

Appendix 2 Caste temples

Appendix 3 Rules and regulations of Hanumangarhi

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