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Ritual Innovation : Strategic Interventions in South Asian Religion /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pennington, Brian K. (Brian Kemble) (Editor), Allocco, Amy L. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2018.
Subjects:
South Asia > Religion > Congresses.
Ritual > South Asia > Congresses.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Ritual Innovation and Political Power
  • Coronation of the Hindu King
  • Ritual Replacement and the Unmaking of Monarchy
  • Innovating the Ancient, Instantiating the Urban
  • Changes in Ritual Practice at the Himalayan Hindu Shrine of Kedarnath
  • Ritual Renunciation and/or Ritual Innovation?
  • Ritual and the Economies of Caste and Class
  • Ancestral Rites Reworked
  • Flower Showers for the Goddess
  • Consuming Krishna
  • Ritual and the Negotiation of Gender
  • Village Widow/Town Priestess
  • Leveraging Agency
  • Ritual Innovation and Masculine Identity Formation in the Contemporary Cult of Lord Ayyappaṉ
  • Ritual Innovation in Contemporary Transnational Contexts
  • Dancing the Vedas, Deritualizing Theory
  • Ganesha and the Chocolate Almonds
  • Recasting Sexuality, Gender, and Family through Contemporary Canadian Ritual Innovation
  • Contributors
  • Index