Sacred Matters
Material Religion in South Asian Traditions
1st Edition
Published on 16. November 2015
244 pages
978-1-4384-5944-8 (ISBN)
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Explores how objects shape the worlds of religious participants across a range of South Asian traditions.
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Tracy Pintchman is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the International Studies Program at Loyola University Chicago. Her books include The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition and Guests at God's Wedding: Celebrating Kartik among the Women of Benares, both published by SUNY Press. Corinne G. Dempsey is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Nazareth College. She is the author of Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth: Adventures in Comparative Religion and The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York: Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Tracy Pintchman
1. The Icon of Yoga: Patanjali as Nagaraja in Modern Yoga
Stuart Ray Sarbacker
2. God's Eyes: The Manufacture, Installation, and Experience of External Eyes on Jain Icons
John E. Cort
3. North Indian Materialities of Jesus
Mathew N. Schmalz
4. Celebrating Materiality: Garbo, a Festival Image of the Goddess in Gujarat
Neelima Shukla-Bhatt
5. The Goddess's Shaligrams
Tracy Pintchman
6. The Camphor Flame in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction
James McHugh
7. Metal Hands, Cotton Threads, and Color Flags: Materializing Islamic Devotion in South India
Afsar Mohammad
8. Monastic Matters: Bowls, Robes, and the Middle Way In South Asian Theravada Buddhism
Bradley Clough
9. Letting Holy Water and Coconuts Speak for Themselves: Tamil Catholicism and the Work of Selva Raj
Selva J. Raj and Corinne Dempsey
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Tracy Pintchman
1. The Icon of Yoga: Patanjali as Nagaraja in Modern Yoga
Stuart Ray Sarbacker
2. God's Eyes: The Manufacture, Installation, and Experience of External Eyes on Jain Icons
John E. Cort
3. North Indian Materialities of Jesus
Mathew N. Schmalz
4. Celebrating Materiality: Garbo, a Festival Image of the Goddess in Gujarat
Neelima Shukla-Bhatt
5. The Goddess's Shaligrams
Tracy Pintchman
6. The Camphor Flame in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction
James McHugh
7. Metal Hands, Cotton Threads, and Color Flags: Materializing Islamic Devotion in South India
Afsar Mohammad
8. Monastic Matters: Bowls, Robes, and the Middle Way In South Asian Theravada Buddhism
Bradley Clough
9. Letting Holy Water and Coconuts Speak for Themselves: Tamil Catholicism and the Work of Selva Raj
Selva J. Raj and Corinne Dempsey
List of Contributors
Index
