Religion Against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals / Edition 1

by Isabelle Nabokov

Overview

This book provides a holistic description of Hinduism, showing how different types of Hinduism form a "total" or systematic cosmology and repeat crucial values through different symbols. Looking at Tamil religious practices, Isabelle Nabokov reveals that Tamil religion is primarily concerned with transformations of identity and subjectivity, both in this world and in the hereafter.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195113655
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/21/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	9.02(w) x 6.34(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Princeton University

Editorial Reviews

"...an extraordinary study in ritual structure, not just in terms of "form" or of issues of the relative ubiquity or uniqueness of Tamil practice, but in how these structures serve as catalysts for wrenching expressions of grief, lament, and life-altering loss."—History of Religions

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