The Life of Hinduism

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THE LIFE OF HINDUISM ...

THE LIFE OF RELIGION Mark Juergensmeyer, editor; Richard Carp, photo editor The Life of Buddhism, edited by Frank E. Reynolds a ...

THE LIFE OF HINDUISM edited by John Stratton Hawley and Vasudha Narayanan University of California Press Berkeley Los Angeles Lo ...

University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the ...

List of Illustrations ix A Note on Transliteration xi Introduction 1 part i worship 1 The Experience: Approaching God 33 Stephen ...

5 Death beyond Death: The Ochre Robe 76 Agehananda Bharati part iii festival 6 Divali: The Festival of Lights 91 Om Lata Bahadur ...

14 A Brahmin Woman: Revenge Herself 218 Lalitambika Antarjanam part vii diaspora 15 Hinduism in Pittsburgh: Creating the South I ...

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Hanuman receiving New Year’s garlands 3 Adorning a kolamdiagram 34 On the way to temple 35 “One Soul, Two Bodies” 43 Radha look ...

The following images may be viewed at the web site http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/vasu/loh. We are grateful to Bradley Ackroyd, d ...

The essays assembled in this volume were written for a variety of purposes and au- diences, and they adopt a variety of schemes ...

dafahra, Dassehra, Dussehra deepa, dipa, diya dharm, dharma Deepavali, Divali, Divali Ganapati, Ganefa, Ganesh, Ganesha Gobardha ...

tika, tika, teeka Vaishnava, Vaisnava Varanasi. SeeBanaras. Venkatesvara, Venkateswara Vishnu, Visnu Vraja. SeeBraj. vrata, vrat ...

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. Introduction john stratton hawley andvasudha narayanan BANGALORE AND BEYOND January 1, 2004, was a happy day for India’s surgi ...

2. introduction own (see figure 1). As they watched, a little gondola made its transit across a high metal scaffolding so that p ...

figure 1 Hanuman receiving New Year’s garlands, Mahalakshmipuram, Bangalore, January 1, 2004. Photo by John Hawley. ...

4. introduction worshippers up toward the main sanctuary as if they were visitors to the Statue of Liberty or Walt Disney World; ...