Purity and Auspiciousness in Indian Society

About the author

John B. Carman, Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Religion in the Harvard Divinity School, is the Director of Harvard s Center for the Study of World Religions. He is the author of "The Theology of R m nuja" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974), editor of the 1967 Consultation Report, "Study of Religion in Indian Universities," co-author with the Rev. P. Y. Luke of "Village Christians and Hindu Culture (Lutterworth Press, 1968) and translator of W. Brede Kristensen s lectures in phenomenology of religion, published under the title, "The Meaning of Religion" (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1960). Frederique Apffel Marglin is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Smith College. She is the author of "Wives of the God-King: The Rituals of the Devad s s of Puri" (Oxford University Press, 1985) as well as of several articles on Hindu rituals, myths, and images of the feminine. Her current research focuses on royal rituals in Orissa."

Product details

• Assisted by: J. B. Carman (Editor), F. a. Marglin (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1985
• EAN: 9789004077898
• ISBN: 978-90-04-07789-8
• No. of pages: 129
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 245 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 254 g
• Series: Studies in the History of Chri
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design