Religion and Commodification: 'Merchandizing' Diasporic Hinduism

ISBN-13: 9780415873635 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 242 str.

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Opis

Sinha offers insights into the everyday material religious lives of Hindus as they strive to sustain theistic, devotional Hinduism in diasporic locations, particularly Singapore, Malaysia, and Tamil Nadu, where religious objects have become commodified.

Spis treści

1. Everyday Hindu Religiosity and Ritual Objects 2. ‘Mapping’ Spaces and Objects: ‘Diaspora Hinduism’ and ‘Puja Items’ 3. Homes for Gods: Prayer Altars for Family Shrines 4. Visual Representations of Hindu Divinity: Disentangling ‘Material’ from ‘Deity’ from ‘Commodity’ 5. Flowers for Worship, Flowers for Sale: Straddling the ‘Sacred’ and the ‘Secular’ 6. Religion and Commodification: What Are the Possibilities for Enchantment?

O autorze

Vineeta Sinha is Associate Professor and teaches at the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. She obtained her M.A and Ph.D in Anthropology from the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of A New God in the Diaspora? Muneeswaran Worship in Contemporary Singapore, (Singapore University Press & Nordic Institute of Asian Studeis 2005).