
Hindu Ritual at the Margins
Innovations, Transformations, Reconsiderations
University of South Carolina Press
Published on 29. October 2014
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-1-61117-389-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
South Carolina
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Annotated edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
20 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
502 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61117-389-5 (9781611173895)
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Innovations, Transformations, Reconsiderations
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Linda Penkower is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She has published on the historical, social, institutional, and doctrinal aspects of East Asian Buddhism, especially the Chinese Tiantai tradition. Penkower is currently completing two monographs: Tiantai Buddhism and the Construction of Lineage during the Tang and Shared Sacrality, an annotated translation of the Jin'gangbei (The Diamond Scalpel), the eighth-century Chinese locus classicus for the idea of insentient buddha-nature.
Tracy Pintchman is a professor of religious studies and director of the International Studies Program at Loyola University of Chicago, USA. Her research interests include Hindu goddess traditions, women and religion, ritual studies, and transnational Hinduism. Her scholarly publications include more than twenty articles and book chapters, five edited and coedited volumes, and two monographs, The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition and Guests at God's Wedding: Celebrating Kartik among the Women of Benares.
Tracy Pintchman is a professor of religious studies and director of the International Studies Program at Loyola University of Chicago, USA. Her research interests include Hindu goddess traditions, women and religion, ritual studies, and transnational Hinduism. Her scholarly publications include more than twenty articles and book chapters, five edited and coedited volumes, and two monographs, The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition and Guests at God's Wedding: Celebrating Kartik among the Women of Benares.