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Aiyanar
Animal sacrifice
Approbation
Asceticism
Asura
Author_C. J. Fuller
Ayodhya dispute
Bhairava
Bhakti
Bharat mata ki jai
Bhikshatana
Bhumi
Brahmin
Caste
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Cattle in religion
Celibacy
Deity
Durga
Endogamy
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Exorcism
God
Good and evil
Harijan
Hindu
Hindu mythology
Hindu nationalism
Hinduism
Holi
Incest
Jade Emperor
Jainism
Kartikeya
Khandoba
Kuladevata
Mahishasura
Manikarnika Ghat
Martyr
Minakshi
Mohini
Muscular Christianity
Navratri
Polytheism
Puranas
Ramcharitmanas
Ramdev Pir
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
Ravana
Religion
Religious stratification
Renunciation
Ritual purification
Sadhu
Sanskrit
Secularism
Shaivism
Shitala
Shiva
Sindoor
Tantras
Tarapith
Theodicy
Tulsidas
Untouchability
Vijayadashami
Virabhadra
Vishnu
Vishvakarman
Warfare
Worship
Yajna
Product details
- ISBN 9780691120485
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 15 Aug 2004
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans is a central theme of this rich and accessible study of popular Hinduism in the context of the society of contemporary India. Lucidly organized and skillfully written, The Camphor Flame brings clarity to an immensely complicated subject. C. J. Fuller combines ethnographic case studies with comparative anthropological analysis and draws on textual and historical scholarship as well. The book's new afterword brings the study up-to-date by examining the relationship between popular Hinduism and contemporary Hindu nationalism.
C. J. Fuller is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His books include "Servants of the Goddess" (Cambridge) and "The Renewal of the Priesthood" (Princeton).
