Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess - Hadimba, Her Devotees, and Religion in Rapid Change

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• A Word on Transliteration


• Illustrations


• Introduction


• Chapter 1. Getting There: The Land of the Gods


• Chapter 2. Assembling the Ritual Core: Hadimba as a Complex Agent


• Chapter 3. Narrating the Local Web of Associations: The Goddess of Many Faces


• Chapter 4. Encountering Epic India: Hadimba and the Mahabharata


• Chapter 5. Negotiating National Hinduism: The Controversy over Blood Sacrifice


• Chapter 6. Confronting the Global: Hadimba and Climate Change


• Conclusion


• Notes


• References


• Index

About the author

Ehud Halperin teaches at Tel Aviv University. He earned his PhD in South Asian Religions from Columbia University in 2012. He specializes in the study of Himalayan Hinduism and the ways in which religious belief, practice, narrative, social order, and capitalist modernity intertwine in everyday life in the region, especially in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Halperin's work concerns diverse issues, such as Indian goddesses, Hindu ritual and sacrifice, material religion and agency of divinities, religion and ecology, and lived Hinduism.

Product details

• Authors: Ehud Halperin, Ehud (Associate Professor Halperin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2020
• EAN: 9780190913588
• ISBN: 978-0-19-091358-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: AAR Religion, Culture, and History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; RELIGION / Hinduism / General, Religion & beliefs, Hinduism, Religion and beliefs