TY - BOOK AU - Grieve, Gregory Price. TI - Retheorizing religion in Nepal SN - 1403974349 U1 - 294.5095496 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave MacMillan KW - Mandala -- Nepal -- Bhaktapur KW - Hinduism -- Nepal -- Bhaktapur KW - Bhaktapur (Nepal) -- Religious life and customs KW - Hinduism N1 - Introduction: Preparing the materials : prolegomenon for a study of prosaic religion -- pt. I. Tradition, modernity, and the challenge of prosaic Hinduism -- Framing the study : theorizing the histories of tradition in Bhaktapur, Nepal -- Laying down the grid : cosmology and the place of tradition in Bhaktapur, Nepal -- pt. II. Prosaic religion and the construction of lived worlds -- Sketching the central point : cadastral god-images and the politics of scriptural mediation -- Illustrating Samsara : religious "recipes" for making a prosaic lived world -- Performing prosaic Tantra : Jhinjan Minjan Danigu's animating affect and social critique of religious experience -- Bringing a forged Mandala to life : the cow procession and the improvisation of cadastral generative matrixes -- Conclusion: Detailing the material : a strategy for mediating religion (Dharma) beside the book ER -