05977cam a2200733Ma 4500 ocn893284686 OCoLC 20200709060113.0 m d cr |||||||nn|n 140321s2014 scu ob 001 0 eng d 2014004293 P@U eng pn P@U OCLCO E7B YDXCP N$T OCLCQ OCLCF EBLCP COO OCLCO OCL OCLCQ AGLDB OCLCQ LOA K6U IDK JBG ICG CCO PIFAG FVL ZCU MERUC OCLCQ U3W STF WRM OCLCQ VTS INT VT2 JSTOR 1055342269 9781611173901 (electronic bk.) 1611173906 (electronic bk.) 1611173892 9781611173895 750189 (N$T) (OCoLC)893284686 (OCoLC)1055342269 22573/ctv6vpdnm JSTOR BL1226.2 .H47 2014 REL 017000 bisacsh REL 032000 bisacsh REL 032020 bisacsh 294.5/38 23 MAIN Hindu Ritual at the Margins : Innovations, Transformations, Reconsiderations / edited by Linda Penkower and Tracy Pintchman. Columbia : The University of South Carolina Press, 2014. ©2014 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Studies in Comparative Religion Based on presentations at a conference called "Ritualizing in, on, and across the Boundaries of the Indian Subcontinent" in honor of Fred W. Clothey on the occasion of his retirement and held at the University of Pittsburgh in March 2006. Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. pt. 1 Transformations: history and identity -- The medieval Murukan : the place of a god among his Tamil worshipers / Leslie C. Orr -- A tale of two weddings : gendered performances of Tulsi's Marriage to Krsna / Tracy Pintchman -- The roles of ritual in two "blockbuster" Hindi films / Philip Lutgendorf -- pt. 2 Innovations: globalization and the Hindu diaspora -- The politics of ritual among Murukan's Malaysian devotees / Elizabeth Fuller Collins and K. Ramanathan -- Women, ritual, and the ironies of power at a North American goddess temple / Corinne Dempsey -- Hindu ritual in a Canadian context / Paul Younger -- pt. 3 Reconsiderations: context and theory -- The accidental ritualist / David L. Haberman -- Ritual as dharma : the narrowing and widening of a key term / Alf Hiltebeitel -- From Diaspora to (global) civil society : global gurus and the processes of de-ritualization and de-ethnization in Singapore / Joanne Punzo Waghorne. 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. Master record variable field(s) change: 072 Hinduism Social aspects Congresses. Hinduism Rituals Congresses. RELIGION Comparative Religion. bisacsh Hinduism Rituals. fast (OCoLC)fst00957154 Hinduism Social aspects. fast (OCoLC)fst00957162 RELIGION / Hinduism / General bisacsh Electronic books. Conference papers and proceedings. fast (OCoLC)fst01423772 Clothey, Fred W., honouree. Pintchman, Tracy, editor. Penkower, Linda L., editor. Print version: Hindu Ritual at the Margins. Columbia : The University of South Carolina Press, 2014 (DLC) 2014004293 Studies in comparative religion (Columbia, S.C.) EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=750189 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=e000xna&AN=750189 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=750189 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL2054832 ebrary EBRY ebr10951832 EBSCOhost EBSC 750189 Project MUSE MUSE muse35400 YBP Library Services YANK 11975906 92 N$T 54669 54669