Gods in the World - Placemaking and Healing in the Himalayas

Gods in the World is a richly descriptive and evocative ethnography of Hindu ritual practices that shows how deities and other supernatural agents come to matter to ordinary people.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Prelude: The Healing Room
Introduction: Textures of Divine Presence
1. Making “Dev-bhumi,” the Land of the Gods
2. Affliction and Healing
3. Political Divinities in the Village Square
4. Undoing Love: Ghost Affliction and Patrilocal Marriage
5. Out of Place: Lives of Oracles and Priests
6. Playing in the Rain: Scenes from a Himalayan Pilgrimage
Epilogue: Beyond Belief
Indian-Language Words with Diacritics
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Aftab S. Jassal is an assistant professor of anthropology as well as affiliate faculty in the Program for the Study of Religion and the Global Health Program at the University of California, San Diego.

Summary

Gods in the World is a richly descriptive and evocative ethnography of Hindu ritual practices that shows how deities and other supernatural agents come to matter to ordinary people.

Product details

• Authors: Aftab S. Jassal
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.2024
• EAN: 9780231214971
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21497-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, Sociology: customs & traditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, RELIGION / Hinduism / Rituals & Practice, Religion & politics, Hinduism, the Himalayas, Social and cultural anthropology, Religion and Politics, Himalayas, religion; social science