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Everyday Hinduism

Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger 

ISBN: 978-1-405-16011-7

May 2015

Wiley-Blackwell

256 pages

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Everyday Hinduism

Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger

E-Book
978-1-118-52818-1
February 2015
$25.00
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978-1-405-16021-6
May 2015
$30.95
Hardcover
978-1-405-16011-7
May 2015
$114.95
Description
This innovative introductory textbook explores the central practices and beliefs of Hinduism through contemporary, everyday practice.

  • Introduces and contextualizes the rituals, festivals and everyday lived experiences of Hinduism in text and images
  • Includes data from the author’s own extensive ethnographic fieldwork in central India (Chhattisgarh), the Deccan Plateau (Hyderabad), and South India (Tirupati)
  • Features coverage of Hindu diasporas, including a study of the Hindu community in Atlanta, Georgia
  • Each chapter includes case study examples of specific topics related to the practice of Hinduism framed by introductory and contextual material
About the Author
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger is a Professor in the Department of Religion at Emory University. She is the author of When the World Becomes Female: Guises of a South Indian Goddess (2013), In Amma’s Healing Room: Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India (2009), and Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India (1996).
Series
Lived Religions
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