The Life of Hinduism ( The Life of Religion )

Publication series ：The Life of Religion

Author： Hawley > John Stratton  

Publisher： University Of California Press‎

Publication year： 2006

E-ISBN: 9780520940079

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780520249141

Subject： B982 Brahmanism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism

Keyword： 宗教

Language： ENG

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Description

The Life of Hinduism brings together a series of essays—many recognized as classics in the field—that present Hinduism as a vibrant, truly "lived" religion. Celebrating the diversity for which Hinduism is known, this volume begins its journey in the "new India" of Bangalore, India’s Silicon Valley, where global connections and local traditions rub shoulders daily. Readers are then offered a glimpse into the multifaceted world of Hindu worship, life-cycle rites, festivals, performances, gurus, and castes. The book’s final sections deal with the Hinduism that is emerging in diasporic North America and with issues of identity that face Hindus in India and around the world: militancy versus tolerance and the struggle between owning one’s own religion and sharing it with others.

Contributors: Andrew Abbott, Michael Burawoy, Patricia Hill Collins, Barbara Ehrenreich, Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Sharon Hays, Douglas Massey, Joya Misra, Orlando Patterson, Frances Fox Piven, Lynn Smith-Lovin, Judith Stacey, Arthur Stinchcombe, Alain Touraine, Immanuel Wallerstein, William Julius Wilson, Robert Zussman

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Contents

List of Illustrations

A Note on Transliteration

Introduction

PART I: WORSHIP

1 The Experience: Approaching God

2 The Deity: The Image of God

3 The Miraculous: The Birth of a Shrine

PART II: THE LIFE CYCLE

4 Marriage: Women in India

5 Death beyond Death: The Ochre Robe

PART III: FESTIVAL

6 Divali: The Festival of Lights

7 Holi: The Feast of Love

PART IV: PERFOMANCE

8 An Open-Air Ramayana: Ramlila, the Audience Experience

9 A Ramayana on Air: “All in the (Raghu) Family,” A Video Epic in Cultural Context

10 Possession by Durga: The Mother Who Possesses

PART V: GURUS

11 Anandamayi Ma: God Came as a Woman

12 Radhasoami: The Healing Offer

PART VI: CASTE

13 A Dalit Poet-Saint: Ravidas

14 A Brahmin Woman: Revenge Herself

PART VII: DIASPORA

15 Hinduism in Pittsburgh: Creating the South Indian “Hindu” Experience in the United States

16 A Diasporic Hindu Creed: Some Basic Features of Hinduism

PART VIII: IDENTITY

17 Militant Hinduism: Ayodhya and the Momentum of Hindu Nationalism

18 Tolerant Hinduism: Shared Ritual Spaces—Hindus and Muslims at the Shrine of Shahul Hamid

19 Hinduism for Hindus: Taking Back Hindu Studies

20 Hinduism with Others: Interlogue

List of Contributors

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