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Hindu Ritual at the Margins - Innovations, Transformations, Reconsiderations (Hardcover)
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Hindu Ritual at the Margins - Innovations, Transformations, Reconsiderations (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Comparative Religion
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Hindu Ritual at the Margins explores Hindu forms of ritual activity
in a variety of "marginal" contexts. The contributors collectively
examine ritual practices in diaspora; across gender, ethnic,
social, and political groups; in film, text, and art; in settings
where ritual itself or direct discussion of ritual is absent; in
contexts that create new opportunities for traditionally
marginalized participants or challenge the received tradition; and
via theoretical perspectives that have been undervalued in the
academy.
In the first of three sections, contributors explore the ways in
which Hindu ritual performed in Indian contexts intersects with
historical, contextual, and social change. They examine the
changing significance and understanding of particular deities, the
identity and agency of ritual actors, and the instrumentality of
ritual in new media. Essays in the second section examine ritual
practices outside of India, focusing on evolving ritual claims to
authority in mixed cultures (such as Malaysia), the reshaping of
gender dynamics of ritual at an American temple, and the democratic
reshaping of ritual forms in Canadian Hindu communities. The final
section considers the implications for ritual studies of the
efficacy of bodily acts divorced from intention, contemporary
spiritual practice as opposed to religious-bound ritual, and the
notion of dharma.
Based on a conference on Hindu ritual held in 2006 at the
University of Pittsburgh, Hindu Ritual at the Margins seeks to
elucidate the ways ritual actors come to shape ritual practices or
conceptions pertaining to ritual and how studying ritual in
marginal contexts--at points of dynamic tension--requires scholars
to reshape their understanding of ritual activity.
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