The Experience of Hinduism: Essays on Religion in MaharashtraThis book presents multi-faceted images of religious experience in the Marathi-speaking region of India. In addition to Irawati Karve's classic, "On the Road," about her pilgrimage to Pandharpur, there are three essays by Karve that appear in English for the first time. Here is possession by gods and ghosts, an actual sermon by an inspired saint in the traditional bhajan style, and an autobiographical account of the religious nationalism of the militant R.S.S. These are engaging, true-to-life accounts of the lives of individual Hindus. Essays and imaginative literature, a poem, and a short story interplay the ideas, concepts, personalities, practices, rituals, and deities of Hinduism in a surprisingly coherent manner. |
Contents
BoyFriend? An Essay | 3 |
The Vow A Short Story | 7 |
One Face of God | 17 |
Gods Ghosts and Possession | 26 |
Scattered Voices The Nature of God | 60 |
A Town without a Temple An Essay | 69 |
The Ganesh Festival in Maharashtra Some Observations | 76 |
The God Dattatreya and the Datta Temples of Pune | 95 |
The Last Kirtan of Gadge Baba | 223 |
Orthodoxy and Human Rights The Story of a Clash | 251 |
The Orthodoxy of the Mahanubhavs | 264 |
The Birth of a Rationalist | 280 |
Scattered Voices Refuge in the Buddha | 291 |
Bhakti in the Modern Mode Poems and Essays | 297 |
Glossary | 323 |
Gods Goddesses and Religious Festivals | 334 |
The Religion of the Dhangar Nomads | 109 |
The Birth of a God Ram Mama of the Nandiwalas | 131 |
On the Road A Maharashtrian Pilgrimage | 142 |
The Gondhali Singers for the Devi | 174 |
My Years in the RSS | 190 |
Scattered Voices The Experience of Ritual | 204 |
All That Is You An Essay | 213 |
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The Experience of Hinduism: Essays on Religion in Maharashtra Eleanor Zelliot,Maxine Berntsen Limited preview - 1988 |
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