The Camphor Flame
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The Camphor Flame

Popular Hinduism and Society in India - Revised and Expanded Edition

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eBook - PDF

The Camphor Flame

Popular Hinduism and Society in India - Revised and Expanded Edition

About this book

Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans is a central theme of this rich and accessible study of popular Hinduism in the context of the society of contemporary India. Lucidly organized and skillfully written, The Camphor Flame brings clarity to an immensely complicated subject. C. J. Fuller combines ethnographic case studies with comparative anthropological analysis and draws on textual and historical scholarship as well. The book's new afterword brings the study up-to-date by examining the relationship between popular Hinduism and contemporary Hindu nationalism.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. LIST OF MAPS AND TABLES
  6. PREFACE TO THE REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION
  7. PREFACE
  8. NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
  9. NOTE ON DOCUMENTATION
  10. CHAPTER 1 Popular Hinduism and Indian Society
  11. CHAPTER 2 Gods and Goddesses
  12. CHAPTER 3 Worship
  13. CHAPTER 4 Sacrifice
  14. CHAPTER 5 Rituals of Kingship
  15. CHAPTER 6 Rituals of the Village
  16. CHAPTER 7 Devotionalist Movements
  17. CHAPTER 8 Devotionalism, Goddesses, and Women
  18. CHAPTER 9 Pilgrimage
  19. CHAPTER 10 Misfortune
  20. CHAPTER 11 Conclusion
  21. AFTERWORD Popular Hinduism and Hindu Nationalism
  22. APPENDIX The Hindu Calendar
  23. GLOSSARY
  24. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE
  25. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  26. INDEX