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Hindu Selves in a Modern World

Guru Faith in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission

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Gebonden, 196 blz. | Engels
Taylor & Francis | 1e druk, 2004
ISBN13: 9780415339889
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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.

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ISBN13:9780415339889
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:196
Druk:1

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