Hindu Ritual at the Margins : Innovations, Transformations, Reconsiderations.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (250 pages)
- Studies in Comparative Religion Series .
- Studies in Comparative Religion Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Transformations: History and Identity -- The Medieval Murukan: The Place of a God among His Tamil Worshipers -- A Tale of Two Weddings: Gendered Performances of Tulsī's Marriage to Krsna -- The Roles of Ritual in Two "Blockbuster" Hindi Films -- Part 2. Innovations: Globalization and the Hindu Diaspora -- The Politics of Ritual among Murukan's Malaysian Devotees -- Women, Ritual, and the Ironies of Power at a North American Goddess Temple -- Hindu Ritual in a Canadian Context -- Part 3. Reconsiderations: Context and Theory -- The Accidental Ritualist -- Ritual as Dharma: The Narrowing and Widening of a Key Term -- From Diaspora to (Global) Civil Society: Global Gurus and the Processes of De-ritualization and De-ethnization in Singapore -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Essays examining the ways in which Hindu ritual practices are reshaped on the fringes of tradition across the globe.