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Dealing with Deities : The Ritual Vow in South Asia.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (310 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780791482001
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dealing with DeitiesDDC classification:
  • 204/.46
LOC classification:
  • BL1055 -- .D44 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Dealing with Deities -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Sites Associated with Ritual Vows -- 1. Introduction: The Deal with Deities-Ways Vows Work in South Asia -- 2. "The Vow": A Short Story -- I. Getting What You Want -- 3. Negotiating Relationships with the Goddess -- 4. Shared Vows, Shared Space, and Shared Deities: Vow Rituals among Tamil Catholics in South India -- 5. Religious Vows at the Shrine of Shahul Hamid -- 6. In the Company of Pirs:Making Vows, Receiving Favors at Bangladeshi Sufi Shrines -- 7. Bara: Buddhist Vows at Kataragama -- 8. Performing Vows in Diasporic Contexts:Tamil Hindus, Temples,and Goddesses in Germany -- II. Getting What You Need -- 9. Singing a Vow: Devoting Oneselfto Shiva through Song -- 10. Monastic Vows and the Ramananda Sampraday -- 11. Negotiating Karma, Merit, and Liberation:Vow-taking in the Jain Tradition -- 12. Vows in the Sikh Tradition -- III. Getting Nothing At All -- 13. When Vows Fail to Deliver What They Promise:The Case of Shyamavati -- 14. Two Critiques of Women's Vows -- IV. Conclusion: Some Promising Possibilities -- 15. Toward a Typology of South Asian Lay Vows -- Glossary -- Contributors -- Appendix: Essays Arranged According to Tradition -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Explores the practice of taking ritual vows in South Asia, a lay tradition prevalent in the region's religions.
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Intro -- Dealing with Deities -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Sites Associated with Ritual Vows -- 1. Introduction: The Deal with Deities-Ways Vows Work in South Asia -- 2. "The Vow": A Short Story -- I. Getting What You Want -- 3. Negotiating Relationships with the Goddess -- 4. Shared Vows, Shared Space, and Shared Deities: Vow Rituals among Tamil Catholics in South India -- 5. Religious Vows at the Shrine of Shahul Hamid -- 6. In the Company of Pirs:Making Vows, Receiving Favors at Bangladeshi Sufi Shrines -- 7. Bara: Buddhist Vows at Kataragama -- 8. Performing Vows in Diasporic Contexts:Tamil Hindus, Temples,and Goddesses in Germany -- II. Getting What You Need -- 9. Singing a Vow: Devoting Oneselfto Shiva through Song -- 10. Monastic Vows and the Ramananda Sampraday -- 11. Negotiating Karma, Merit, and Liberation:Vow-taking in the Jain Tradition -- 12. Vows in the Sikh Tradition -- III. Getting Nothing At All -- 13. When Vows Fail to Deliver What They Promise:The Case of Shyamavati -- 14. Two Critiques of Women's Vows -- IV. Conclusion: Some Promising Possibilities -- 15. Toward a Typology of South Asian Lay Vows -- Glossary -- Contributors -- Appendix: Essays Arranged According to Tradition -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Explores the practice of taking ritual vows in South Asia, a lay tradition prevalent in the region's religions.

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