Jassal Gods in the World

Placemaking and Healing in the Himalayas
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-56055-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 52

Reihe: Religion, Culture, and Public Life

Gods in the World is a richly descriptive and evocative ethnography of Hindu ritual practices that shows how deities and other supernatural agents come to matter to ordinary people.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jassal, Aftab S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus Hinduismus: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Prelude: The Healing Room
Introduction: Textures of Divine Presence
1. Making “Dev-bhumi,” the Land of the Gods
2. Affliction and Healing
3. Political Divinities in the Village Square
4. Undoing Love: Ghost Affliction and Patrilocal Marriage
5. Out of Place: Lives of Oracles and Priests
6. Playing in the Rain: Scenes from a Himalayan Pilgrimage
Epilogue: Beyond Belief
Indian-Language Words with Diacritics
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Aftab S. Jassal is an assistant professor of anthropology as well as affiliate faculty in the Program for the Study of Religion and the Global Health Program at the University of California, San Diego.