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God's Gateway - Identity and Meaning in a Hindu Pilgrimage Place (Hardcover)
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God's Gateway - Identity and Meaning in a Hindu Pilgrimage Place (Hardcover)
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A celebrated Hindu pilgrimage site, Hardwar lies on the river
Ganges at the edge of the Himalayas. Its identity as a holy place
is inextricably tied to the mythology and reality of the Ganges,
and traditional sources overwhelmingly stress this connection.
Virtually nothing has been written about Hardwar's history and
development, although the historical record reveals striking
changes of the past few centuries. These changes have usually
reflected worldly forces such as shifting trade routes, improved
transportation, or political instability. Yet such mundane
influences have been ignored in the city's sacred narrative, which
presents a fixed, unchanging identity. The city's complex identity,
says Lochtefeld, lies in the tension between these differing
narratives. In this fieldwork-based study, Lochtefeld analyzes
modern Hardwar as a Hindu pilgrimage center. He looks first at
various groups of local residents -- businessmen, hereditary
priests, and ascetics -- and assesses their differing roles in
managing Hardwar as a holy place. He then examines the pilgrims and
the factors that bring them to Hardwar. None of these groups is as
pious as popularly depicted, but their interactions in upholding
their own interest create and maintain Hardwar's religious
environment. In conclusion, he addresses the wider context of
Indian pilgrimage and the forces shaping it in the present day. He
finds that many modern Hindus, like many modern Christians, feel
some dissonance between traditional religious symbols and their
21st-century world, and that they are reinterpreting their
traditional symbols to make them meaningful for their time.
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