The experience of hinduism : essays on religion in maharashtra / Edited by Eleanor Zelliot, Rita Maxine Berntsen

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Language: English New York : State University of New York Press, 1987Description: xxii, 371 p. ; 22.5 cmISBN:

9780887066641 (pbk)

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294.509 547 9 ZEL

Summary: This book presents multi-faceted images of religious experience in the Marathi-speaking region of India. In addition to Irawati Karve's classic, "On the Road," about her pilgrimage to Pandharpur, there are three essays by Karve that appear in English for the first time. Here is possession by gods and ghosts, an actual sermon by an inspired saint in the traditional bhajan style, and an autobiographical account of the religious nationalism of the militant R.S.S. These are engaging, true-to-life accounts of the lives of individual Hindus. Essays and imaginative literature, a poem, and a short story interplay the ideas, concepts, personalities, practices, rituals, and deities of Hinduism in a surprisingly coherent manner.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Text Book	Chanakya University Knowledge Centre	Chanakya University Knowledge Centre	Chanakya University	294.509 5479 ZEL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		CU12667

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This book presents multi-faceted images of religious experience in the Marathi-speaking region of India. In addition to Irawati Karve's classic, "On the Road," about her pilgrimage to Pandharpur, there are three essays by Karve that appear in English for the first time. Here is possession by gods and ghosts, an actual sermon by an inspired saint in the traditional bhajan style, and an autobiographical account of the religious nationalism of the militant R.S.S. These are engaging, true-to-life accounts of the lives of individual Hindus. Essays and imaginative literature, a poem, and a short story interplay the ideas, concepts, personalities, practices, rituals, and deities of Hinduism in a surprisingly coherent manner.

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