Religion in India
Madan, T.N.
Religion in India - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008. - xvii, 460 p. ill. ; 22 cm. - (Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social anthropology) .
The Quran --
A folk diety of Tamil Nad: Aiyanar, the Lord --
The evil eye --
Hindu values of life: Karma and Dharma --
Purity and pollution --
The Toda diary --
The meaning of space in the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy --
Sinking flowers at Hardwar --
Kashi: city of all India --
Cocepts of space in ritual --
Cyclical time: Durgapuja in Bengal: concepts, actions, objects --
Time renewed: Ratha jatra in Puri --
Murtipuja in Svetambar Jain temples --
Mangala among the Coorgs --
The pilgrimage to Ajmer --
Morarram (Continued) Saora shamans and shamanins --
Sathya Sai Baba's miracles --
Hindu temple priests --
Gaya priests and their social networks --
Five symbols of Sikh identity --
Elements of communalism --
The radical and protesting asectic --
Christian fundamentalism as counter-culture --
The logic of religious violence --
Secularism in its place.
9780195630920
Religion and sociology
Religion
200.954 / MAD/R
Religion in India - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008. - xvii, 460 p. ill. ; 22 cm. - (Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social anthropology) .
The Quran --
A folk diety of Tamil Nad: Aiyanar, the Lord --
The evil eye --
Hindu values of life: Karma and Dharma --
Purity and pollution --
The Toda diary --
The meaning of space in the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy --
Sinking flowers at Hardwar --
Kashi: city of all India --
Cocepts of space in ritual --
Cyclical time: Durgapuja in Bengal: concepts, actions, objects --
Time renewed: Ratha jatra in Puri --
Murtipuja in Svetambar Jain temples --
Mangala among the Coorgs --
The pilgrimage to Ajmer --
Morarram (Continued) Saora shamans and shamanins --
Sathya Sai Baba's miracles --
Hindu temple priests --
Gaya priests and their social networks --
Five symbols of Sikh identity --
Elements of communalism --
The radical and protesting asectic --
Christian fundamentalism as counter-culture --
The logic of religious violence --
Secularism in its place.
9780195630920
Religion and sociology
Religion
200.954 / MAD/R