Sacred Play: Ritual Levity and Humor in South Asian Religions

Herausgeber: Raj, Selva J.; Dempsey, Corinne G.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781438429793
• ISBN-10: 1438429797
• Artikelnr.: 28197924

Autorenporträt

Selva J. Raj (1952-2008) was Chair and Stanley S. Kresge Professor of Religious Studies at Albion College. His books include Dealing with Deities: The Ritual Vow in South Asia, also published by SUNY Press, and South Asian Christian Diaspora: Invisible Diaspora in Europe and North America. Corinne G. Dempsey is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She is author of Kerala Christian Sainthood: Collisions of Culture and Worldview in South India and The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York: Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple. Together Raj and Dempsey coedited Popular Christianity in India: Riting between the Lines and Miracle as Modern Conundrum in South Asian Religious Traditions, both also published by SUNY Press.