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The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York - Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple (Paperback, New)
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The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York - Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple (Paperback, New)
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The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York is a profile of a flourishing
Hindu temple in the town of Rush, New York. The temple, established
by a charismatic nonbrahman Sri Lankan Tamil known as Aiya, stands
out for its combination of orthodox ritual meticulousness and
socioreligious iconoclasm. The vitality with which devotees
participate in ritual themselves and their ready access to the
deities contrasts sharply with ritual activities at most North
American Hindu temples, where (following the usual Indian custom)
ritual is performed only by priests and access to the highly
sanctified divine images is closely guarded. Drawing on several
years of fieldwork, Dempsey weaves traditional South Asian tales,
temple miracle accounts, and devotional testimonials into an
analysis of the distinctive dynamics of diaspora Hinduism. She
explores the ways in which the goddess, the guru, and temple
members reside at cultural and religious intersections, noting how
distinctions between miraculous and mundane, convention and
non-convention, and domestic and foreign are more often intertwined
and interdependent than in tidy opposition. This lively and
accessible work is a unique and important contribution to diaspora
Hindu Studies.
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