Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Sijapati, Megan Adamson; Birkenholtz, Jessica Vantine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents detailed case studies of lived religion in the Himalaya to offer intra-regional perspectives on the ways in which lived religions are being re-configured or re-imagined in modernity. Presenting new research and perspectives on the Himalayan region, this book should be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian Studies, Religious Studies, and Modernity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317333852
• Artikelnr.: 44866349

Autorenporträt

Megan Adamson Sijapati, PhD, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Co-Chair of Globalization Studies at Gettysburg College, in Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of Islamic Revival in Nepal: Religion and a New Nation (Routledge, 2011). Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Hinduism in the Department of Religion at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. She is the Reviews Editor for Himalaya, journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction 1. Modern Religiosities, Religious Modernities: Views
from the Himalaya Part II: Space, Place, and Material Modernities 2. In the
Mountains of Radical Juxtaposition: Kedarnath at the Beginning of a New
Millennium 3. T-Pop and the Lama: Buddhist "Rites Out of Place" in Tibetan
Monastery Produced VCDs 4. Pocketing the Himalayas: Sacred Souvenirs of the
4-Dham Pilgrimage Part III Gods and Place: Migration, Deities, and
Identities 5. From Text to Internet, From Aniconic to Statuesque: Modern
Textual and Performative Innovations in a Nepali Goddess Tradition 6.
Adulterous Dotiyal or Protector of the Oppressed? Modernity and the
Reframing of Ganganath's Itihas in Uttarakhand Part IV: Education,
Governance, Official Discourses and Religion 7. Redefining Monastic
Education: The Case of Khachoe Ghakyil Ling Nunnery in the Kathmandu Valley
8. Schooling Virtue: Education for 'Spiritual Development' in Northern
Pakistan 9. At the Boundary of Modernity: Religion, Technocracy, and Waste
Management in Bhutan