Culture, religion, and home-making in and beyond South Asia / edited by James Ponniah.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ponniah, James, 1969- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home--South Asia.

Home.

Home--South Asia--Religious aspects.

Sacred space--South Asia.

Sacred space.

South Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2020]

Summary:

Culture, Religion, and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia explores how the idea of the home is repurposed or re-envisioned in relation to experiences of modernity, urbanization, conflict, migration and displacement. It considers how these processes are reflected in rituals, beliefs and social practices. It explores the processes by which "home" may be constructed and how relocations often result in either the replication or rejection of traditional homes and identities. Ponniah examines the various contestations surrounding the categories of "home" and "religion," including interfaith families, urban spaces, and sacred places.

Contents:

Foreword / Brian K. Pennington and Amy L. Allocco

Introduction : homes and spaces under transformation / James Ponniah and Amitha Santiago

The memsahib and her home in the Indian colony : a shadow of the political realm in the domestic sphere? / Rituparna Ray Chowdhury

Home and sacred place in the letters of Gertrude Sovik : a Norwegian-American in China / L. DeAne Lagerquist

Old identities in a new space : the role of Hindu priests in making diasporic communities feel at home in Mumbai / Usha R. Vijailakshmi

The Ramakrishna movement in Japan as seen through the activities of the Nippon Vēdānta Society / Midori Horiuchi

Reconfiguring home : cuisinic negotiations of religion, culture, and identity in Marsha Mehran's Pomegranate soup / Lisa John Mundackal

Searching for the quintessential home : home-making and trans-identity / S. Susan Deborah

Pushing boundaries : negotiations of power in the domestic space / Kochurani Abraham

Women make it work : the story of inter-religious marriages in urban India / James Ponniah

Women and the "bratas" : the practice of vows among rural women in Bengal / Trayee Sinha

Bayit Ze Isha : housing the body of the woman through spatializing metaphors / Amitha Santiago

Contextualizing place in Sri Lanka through popular literature / Dilini Wijeweera, Surangi Gunawardena, and Dimantha Weliange

Terra firma and transcendent space : a hagiographic study of "Arunachala" in Sri Ramana Maharishi's life and works / V. Bharathi Harishankar

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5064-3992-6

OCLC:

1196283364