TY - BOOK AU - Penkower,Linda AU - Pintchman,Tracy TI - Hindu Ritual at the Margins: Innovations, Transformations, Reconsiderations T2 - Studies in Comparative Religion Series SN - 9781611173901 AV - BL1226.2 .H47 2014 U1 - 294.5/38 PY - 2014/// CY - Columbia PB - University of South Carolina Press KW - Hinduism-Social aspects-Congresses KW - Hinduism-Rituals-Congresses KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - Essays examining the ways in which Hindu ritual practices are reshaped on the fringes of tradition across the globe UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=2054832 ER -