Eliza F Kent

Sacred Groves and Local Gods

Religion and Environmentalism in South India

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu over seven years, Eliza F. Kent offers a compelling examination of the religious and social context in which south India's sacred groves take on meaning for the villagers who maintain them, and shows how they have become objects of fascination and hope for Indian environmentalists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780199895489
• ISBN-10: 0199895481
• Artikelnr.: 36694929

Autorenporträt

Associate Professor of Religion, Colgate University

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Note on Transliteration
* Regional Map of South India
* Introduction: Sacred Groves and Local Gods: Religious
Environmentalism in South India
* Chapter 1: Fierce Gods and Dense Forest: Sacred Groves near Madurai
* Chapter 2: A Road Runs Through It: Changing Meanings in Malaiyali
Sacred Groves in Tiruvannamalai District
* Chapter 3: Mixing Botany and Belief: Guardian Deities and Their
Forests in the Pondicherry Region
* Chapter 4: Soteriology and Stake-holders: The Greening of the
Auroville Plateau 1973-2007
* Chapter 5: Sacrifice and Sacrality: Sacred Grove Restoration Projects
Near Chennai
* Afterword
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index