A01=Sukanya Sarbadhikary
Author_Sukanya Sarbadhikary
bengal
bengal religious sites
bengal vaishnavism
bengali pilgrimages
body in place
Category=JBSR
Category=JHMC
contemporary anthropology of place
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hindu geography
hindu pilgrimage
hindu religious practices
hinduism
hindus
krishna
navadvip mayapur
politics of space
popular hinduism
religious practice in bengal
religious studies
sacred geography
sacred topography
shiva
sociology of religion
synaesthesia
vaishnava ritual
vaishnavite pilgrimages
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- ISBN 9780520287716
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Aug 2015
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Hindu devotional traditions have long been recognized for their sacred geographies as well as the sensuous aspects of their devotees' experiences. Largely overlooked, however, are the subtle links between these religious expressions. Based on intensive fieldwork conducted among worshippers in Bengal's Navadvip-Mayapur sacred complex, this book discusses the diverse and contrasting ways in which Bengal-Vaishnava devotees experience sacred geography and divinity. Sukanya Sarbadhikary documents an extensive range of practices, which draw on the interactions of mind, body, and viscera. She shows how perspectives on religion, embodiment, affect, and space are enriched when sacred spatialities of internal and external forms are studied at once.
Sukanya Sarbadhikary is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Presidency University, Kolkata.
