Vineeta Sinha

Religion and Commodification (eBook, PDF)

'Merchandizing' Diasporic Hinduism

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Produktbeschreibung

Using the lens of 'visuality' and 'materiality,' this book offers insights into the everyday religious lives of Hindus as they strive to sustain theistic, devotional Hinduism in diasporic locations. Relying on primary ethnographic data, the book engages key thematics in the fields of material religion, religion and consumption and visual Hindu culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136908255
• Artikelnr.: 43822232

Autorenporträt

Vineeta Sinha is Associate Professor and teaches at the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. She obtained her M.A and Ph.D in Anthropology from the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of A New God in the Diaspora? Muneeswaran Worship in Contemporary Singapore, (Singapore University Press & Nordic Institute of Asian Studeis 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Everyday Hindu Religiosity and Ritual Objects 2. 'Mapping' Spaces and
Objects: 'Diaspora Hinduism' and 'Puja Items' 3. Homes for Gods: Prayer
Altars for Family Shrines 4. Visual Representations of Hindu Divinity:
Disentangling 'Material' from 'Deity' from 'Commodity' 5. Flowers for
Worship, Flowers for Sale: Straddling the 'Sacred' and the 'Secular' 6.
Religion and Commodification: What Are the Possibilities for Enchantment?