A Place for Our Gods: The Construction of an Edinburgh Hindu Temple Community

ISBN-13: 9780700703562 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 260 str.

Malory Nye;Malory Nye

Opis

Study of some 150 Hindu families (and about 1000 persons) living in Edinburgh, and particularly about the fact that two associations exist among them, one of which is based on activities at a temple.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 An ‘Ethnic’ Community; Chapter 3 Hinduism in a Diaspora Context; Chapter 4 The Edinburgh Hindu Mandir And Sanskritic Kendra; Chapter 5 The Mandir Satsang; Chapter 6 Devotional Worship—Bhajans and Satsangs; Chapter 7 Festivals at the Mandir; Chapter 8 The Edinburgh Indian Association; Chapter 9 Religion, Society, and the Construction of Community;

O autorze

Authored by Nye, Malory