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Hindu Ritual at the Margins :

1611173906

9781611173901

1611173892

9781611173895

Hindu Ritual at the Margins :

[Book]

Innovations, Transformations, Reconsiderations /

edited by Linda Penkower and Tracy Pintchman.

Columbia :

The University of South Carolina Press,

2014.

©2014

1 online resource

Studies in Comparative Religion

Based on presentations at a conference called "Ritualizing in, on, and across the Boundaries of the Indian Subcontinent" in honor of Fred W. Clothey on the occasion of his retirement and held at the University of Pittsburgh in March 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hindu Ritual at the Margins explores Hindu forms of ritual activity in a variety of "marginal" contexts. The contributors collectively examine ritual practices in diaspora; across gender, ethnic, social, and political groups; in film, text, and art; in settings where ritual itself or direct discussion of ritual is absent; in contexts that create new opportunities for traditionally marginalized participants or challenge the received tradition; and via theoretical perspectives that have been undervalued in the academy. In the first of three sections, contributors explore the ways in which Hindu ritual performed in Indian contexts intersects with historical, contextual, and social change. They examine the changing significance and understanding of particular deities, the identity and agency of ritual actors, and the instrumentality of ritual in new media. Essays in the second section examine ritual practices outside of India, focusing on evolving ritual claims to authority in mixed cultures (such as Malaysia), the reshaping of gender dynamics of ritual at an American temple, and the democratic reshaping of ritual forms in Canadian Hindu communities. The final section considers the implications for ritual studies of the efficacy of bodily acts divorced from intention, contemporary spiritual practice as opposed to religious-bound ritual, and the notion of dharma. Based on a conference on Hindu ritual held in 2006 at the University of Pittsburgh, Hindu Ritual at the Margins seeks to elucidate the ways ritual actors come to shape ritual practices or conceptions pertaining to ritual and how studying ritual in marginal contexts-at points of dynamic tension-requires scholars to reshape their understanding of ritual activity.

JSTOR

22573/ctv6vpdnm

Hindu Ritual at the Margins.

Hinduism-- Rituals, Congresses.

Hinduism-- Social aspects, Congresses.

Hinduism-- Rituals.

Hinduism-- Social aspects.

RELIGION-- Comparative Religion.

RELIGION-- Hinduism-- General.

REL-- 017000

REL-- 032000

REL-- 032020

Clothey, Fred W.

Penkower, Linda L.

Pintchman, Tracy

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