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amritanandamayi
Ascetic Disciples
Author_Maya Warrier
baba
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
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contemporary Hinduism
devotees
embrace
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ethnographic research
female spiritual leaders
fold
Guru Faiths
Guru Organizations
Hindu Nationalist
Hindu Nationalist Forces
Hindu Selfhood
India's Urban Middle Classes
Indian Devotees
Indian middle class
India’s Urban Middle Classes
Mam
mata
Mata Amritanandamayi
Mata Amritanandamayi Mission
Mata's Arrival
Mata's Devotees
Mata's Embrace
Mata's Fold
matas
Mata’s Arrival
Mata’s Devotees
Mata’s Embrace
Mata’s Fold
Middle Class Devotees
Middle Class Urbanites
mission
Permanent Residents
Physical Contact
Proxy Control
religious modernity
sai
sathya
Skewed Engagement
Spiritual Practice
Tamil Nadu
transnational religious movements
urban Hindu devotional practices
Western Devotees
Product details
- ISBN 9780415339889
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 17 Dec 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explores devotional Hinduism in a modern context of high consumerism and revolutionised communications. It focuses on a fast-growing and high-profile contemporary Hindu guru faith originating in India and attracting a transnational following. The organisation is led by a vastly popular female guru, Mata Amritanandamayi, whom devotees worship as an avatar and a healer of the ills of the contemporary world. By drawing upon multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork among the mata's primarily urban, educated 'middle class' Indian devotees, the author provides crucial insights into new trends in popular Hinduism in a post-colonial and rapidly modernising Indian setting.
Maya Warrier teaches Indian Religion and the Anthropology of Religion at the University of Wales, Lampeter. Her research interests centres on popular Hinduism in contemporary India and among Indian immigrants in the West, with particular focus on issues to do with modernity and globalization.
