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Author : Mahalingum Kolapen
Release : 2002-12-01
Genre : Hindu temples
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Book Synopsis Hindu Temples in North America by : Mahalingum Kolapen
Download or read book Hindu Temples in North America written by Mahalingum Kolapen. This book was released on 2002-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Release : 1994
Genre : Hindu temples
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Book Synopsis A Pilgrimage to Hindu Temples in North America by :
Download or read book A Pilgrimage to Hindu Temples in North America written by . This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Corinne G. Dempsey
Release : 2005-12-15
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York by : Corinne G. Dempsey
Download or read book The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York written by Corinne G. Dempsey. This book was released on 2005-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York is a profile of a flourishing Hindu temple in the town of Rush, New York. The temple, established by a charismatic nonbrahman Sri Lankan Tamil known as Aiya, stands out for its combination of orthodox ritual meticulousness and socioreligious iconoclasm. The vitality with which devotees participate in ritual themselves and their ready access to the deities contrasts sharply with ritual activities at most North American Hindu temples, where (following the usual Indian custom) ritual is performed only by priests and access to the highly sanctified divine images is closely guarded. Drawing on several years of fieldwork, Dempsey weaves traditional South Asian tales, temple miracle accounts, and devotional testimonials into an analysis of the distinctive dynamics of diaspora Hinduism. She explores the ways in which the goddess, the guru, and temple members reside at cultural and religious intersections, noting how distinctions between miraculous and mundane, convention and non-convention, and domestic and foreign are more often intertwined and interdependent than in tidy opposition. This lively and accessible work is a unique and important contribution to diaspora Hindu Studies.
Author : Joanne Punzo Waghorne
Release : 2004-09-16
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 85X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Diaspora of the Gods by : Joanne Punzo Waghorne
Download or read book Diaspora of the Gods written by Joanne Punzo Waghorne. This book was released on 2004-09-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Hindus today are urban middle-class people with religious values similar to those of their professional counterparts in America and Europe. Just as modern professionals continue to build new churches, synagogues, and now mosques, Hindus are erecting temples to their gods wherever their work and their lives take them. Despite the perceived exoticism of Hindu worship, the daily life-style of these avid temple patrons differs little from their suburban neighbors. Joanne Waghorne leads her readers on a journey through this new middle-class Hindu diaspora, focusing on their efforts to build and support places of worship. She seeks to trace the changing religious sensibilities of the middle classes as written on their temples and on the faces of their gods. She offers detailed comparisons of temples in Chennai (formerly Madras), London, and Washington, D.C., and interviews temple priests, devotees, and patrons. In the process, she illuminates the interrelationships between ritual worship and religious edifices, the rise of the modern world economy, and the ascendancy of the great middle class. The result is a comprehensive portrait of Hinduism as lived today by so many both in India and throughout the world. Lavishly illustrated with professional photographs by Dick Waghorne, this book will appeal to art historians as well as urban anthropologists, scholars of religion, and those interested in diaspora, transnationalism, and trends in contemporary religion. It should be especially appealing for course use because it introduces the modern Hinduism practiced by the friends and neighbors of students in the U.S. and Britain.
Author : Dr. Hiro G. Badlani
Release : 2022-04-12
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 111/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hinduism by : Dr. Hiro G. Badlani
Download or read book Hinduism written by Dr. Hiro G. Badlani. This book was released on 2022-04-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is like a map of Hinduism, which showa from where once should start his or her spiritual journey and the journey ends. - RARA HARI DASS, Mount Madonna Center, Santa Vruz, California Your book is definitely written in a way that provides abundant of information about Hinduism in an easily readable format and style that would clearly appeal to the Hindu youth Diaspora - SATGURU BODHINATHA VEYLANSWAMI, Hinduism Today magazine, Kauai's Hindu Monastery, USA
