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Religion and commodification : "merchandizing" diasporic Hinduism / Vineeta Sinha.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sinha, Vineeta.
- Series:
- Routledge research in religion, media and culture ; 1.
- Routledge research in religion, media, and culture ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hinduism--India--Tamil Nadu.
- Hinduism.
- Hinduism--Malaysia--Malaya.
- Hinduism--Singapore.
- Religious supplies industry--India--Tamil Nadu.
- Religious supplies industry.
- Religious supplies industry--Malaysia--Malaya.
- Religious supplies industry--Singapore.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (243 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sustaining a Hindu universe at an everyday life level requires an extraordinary range of religious specialists and ritual paraphernalia. At the level of practice, devotional Hinduism is an embodied religion and grounded in a materiality, that makes the presence of specific physical objects (which when used in worship also carry immense ritual and symbolic load) an indispensable part of its religious practices. Traditionally, both services and objects required for worship were provided and produced by occupational communities. The almost sacred connection between caste groups a
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps and Figures; List of Plates; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; 1 Everyday Hindu Religiosity and Ritual Objects; 2 'Mapping' Spaces and Objects: 'Diaspora Hinduism' and 'Puja Items'; 3 Homes for Gods: Prayer Altars for Family Shrines; 4 Visual Representations of Hindu Divinity: Disentangling 'Material' from 'Deity' from 'Commodity'; 5 Flowers for Worship, Flowers for Sale: Straddling the 'Sacred' and the 'Secular'; 6 Religion and Commodification: What Are the Possibilities for Enchantment?; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-90824-2
- 1-136-90825-0
- 1-282-91275-5
- 0-203-84279-0
- OCLC:
- 689996559
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