Guest is God is an ethnography of the Indian pilgrimage site of Pushkar, which welcomes two million visitors each year. To locals, Pushkar is more than just a gathering place for pilgrims, tourists, and hippies¿it is where Brahma, the creator god, made his home. It is paradise. The book looks into the local effort to create a brand of Hindu religion that is tailored to its local surrounding but engages global ideas.
Guest is God is an ethnography of the Indian pilgrimage site of Pushkar, which welcomes two million visitors each year. To locals, Pushkar is more than just a gathering place for pilgrims, tourists, and hippies¿it is where Brahma, the creator god, made his home. It is paradise. The book looks into the local effort to create a brand of Hindu religion that is tailored to its local surrounding but engages global ideas.
Drew Thomases is Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department at San Diego State University. His work focuses on the anthropology of religion in North India--more specifically, Hindu pilgrimage and practice--though he is broadly interested in tourism, globalization, environmentalism, and theoretical approaches to the study of religion.
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Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration Introduction: Mapping Out Paradise Chapter One: Others and Brothers Chapter Two: Making Pushkar Paradise Chapter Three: Savitri's Curse Chapter Four: Camel Fair Kaleidoscopic Chapter Five: Peace but No Quiet Epilogue Works Cited Index
Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration Introduction: Mapping Out Paradise Chapter One: Others and Brothers Chapter Two: Making Pushkar Paradise Chapter Three: Savitri's Curse Chapter Four: Camel Fair Kaleidoscopic Chapter Five: Peace but No Quiet Epilogue Works Cited Index
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