Using the lens of 'visuality' and 'materiality,' this book offers insights into the everyday religious lives of Hindus as they strive to sustain theistic, devotional Hinduism in diasporic locations. Relying on primary ethnographic data, the book engages key thematics in the fields of material religion, religion and consumption and visual Hindu culture.
Using the lens of 'visuality' and 'materiality,' this book offers insights into the everyday religious lives of Hindus as they strive to sustain theistic, devotional Hinduism in diasporic locations. Relying on primary ethnographic data, the book engages key thematics in the fields of material religion, religion and consumption and visual Hindu culture.
Vineeta Sinha is Associate Professor and teaches at the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. She obtained her M.A and Ph.D in Anthropology from the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of A New God in the Diaspora? Muneeswaran Worship in Contemporary Singapore, (Singapore University Press & Nordic Institute of Asian Studeis 2005).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Everyday Hindu Religiosity and Ritual Objects 2. 'Mapping' Spaces and Objects: 'Diaspora Hinduism' and 'Puja Items' 3. Homes for Gods: Prayer Altars for Family Shrines 4. Visual Representations of Hindu Divinity: Disentangling 'Material' from 'Deity' from 'Commodity' 5. Flowers for Worship, Flowers for Sale: Straddling the 'Sacred' and the 'Secular' 6. Religion and Commodification: What Are the Possibilities for Enchantment?
1. Everyday Hindu Religiosity and Ritual Objects 2. 'Mapping' Spaces and Objects: 'Diaspora Hinduism' and 'Puja Items' 3. Homes for Gods: Prayer Altars for Family Shrines 4. Visual Representations of Hindu Divinity: Disentangling 'Material' from 'Deity' from 'Commodity' 5. Flowers for Worship, Flowers for Sale: Straddling the 'Sacred' and the 'Secular' 6. Religion and Commodification: What Are the Possibilities for Enchantment?
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