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India's religions : perspectives from sociology and history / edited by T.N. Madan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford in India readings in sociology and social anthropologyEdition: Second editionDescription: xvii, 460 pagesISBN:
  • 9780198074908
  • 0198074905
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.60954 MAD-I
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Contents:
The Eucharist in a Syrian Christian church / Susan Visvanathan -- The food area in a Hindu home / R.S. Khare -- Death and cosmogony in Kashi / Jonathan P. Parry -- Hindu worship / C.J. Fuller -- Virashaiva devotion / A.K. Ramanujan -- Faith and suffering in Shia Islam / Akbar S. Ahmed -- Jain monks / Lawrence A. Babb -- Muslim spiritual masters / Desiderio Pinto -- Sikh martyrs / Louis E. Fenech -- Folklore / Viramma, Josiane Racine, and Jean-Luc Racine -- Dharma / Gavin Flood -- The Khalsa rahit / W.H. McLeod -- The Kabir-panth / David N. Lorenzen -- The Ramakrishna Mission / Krishna Prakash Gupta -- Ambedkar's Buddhism / Martin Fuchs -- The South Indian temple : authority, honour, and redistribution / Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge -- Church and community in Goa / Rowena Robinson -- Religious devotion and politics at Hazratbal in Kashmir / Muhammad Ishaq Khan.
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Previously published: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Eucharist in a Syrian Christian church / Susan Visvanathan -- The food area in a Hindu home / R.S. Khare -- Death and cosmogony in Kashi / Jonathan P. Parry -- Hindu worship / C.J. Fuller -- Virashaiva devotion / A.K. Ramanujan -- Faith and suffering in Shia Islam / Akbar S. Ahmed -- Jain monks / Lawrence A. Babb -- Muslim spiritual masters / Desiderio Pinto -- Sikh martyrs / Louis E. Fenech -- Folklore / Viramma, Josiane Racine, and Jean-Luc Racine -- Dharma / Gavin Flood -- The Khalsa rahit / W.H. McLeod -- The Kabir-panth / David N. Lorenzen -- The Ramakrishna Mission / Krishna Prakash Gupta -- Ambedkar's Buddhism / Martin Fuchs -- The South Indian temple : authority, honour, and redistribution / Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge -- Church and community in Goa / Rowena Robinson -- Religious devotion and politics at Hazratbal in Kashmir / Muhammad Ishaq Khan.

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