The Camphor Flame : : Popular Hinduism and Society in India - Revised and Expanded Edition / / C. J. Fuller.
Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans is a central theme of this rich and accessible study of popular Hin...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- MAPS AND TABLES
- PREFACE TO THE REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION
- PREFACE
- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
- NOTE ON DOCUMENTATION
- Chapter 1. POPULAR HINDUISM AND INDIAN SOCIETY
- Chapter 2. GODS AND GODDESSES
- Chapter 3. WORSHIP
- Chapter 4. SACRIFICE
- Chapter 5. RITUALS O F KINGSHIP
- Chapter 6. RITUALS OF THE VILLAGE
- Chapter 7. DEVOTIONALIST MOVEMENTS
- Chapter 8. DEVOTIONALISM , GODDESSES, AND WOMEN
- Chapter 9. PILGRIMAGE
- Chapter 10. MISFORTUNE
- Chapter 11. CONCLUSION
- Afterword POPULAR HINDUISM AND HINDU NATIONALISM
- APPENDIX THE HINDU CALENDAR
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX