Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre

This book is the result of the long interest in Hindu pilgrimage which was encouraged during his study of Sanskrit and Hinduism It provided a detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values can reflect political and economic processes. This is Volume 59 of the London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology.

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Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre

This book is the result of the long interest in Hindu pilgrimage which was encouraged during his study of Sanskrit and Hinduism It provided a detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values can reflect political and economic processes. This is Volume 59 of the London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology.

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Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre

Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre

by Peter van der Veer
Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre

Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre

by Peter van der Veer

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This book is the result of the long interest in Hindu pilgrimage which was encouraged during his study of Sanskrit and Hinduism It provided a detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values can reflect political and economic processes. This is Volume 59 of the London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology.


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ISBN-13: 9781000324570
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/17/2020
Series: LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 310
File size: 621 KB

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Peter van der Veer (Author)

Table of Contents

I Ayodhya: Time and Place, II Problems and Perspectives, III Devotion and Ascetisicm, IV The sacred as a profession, V Conclusion

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