Hindu Selves in a Modern World : Guru Faith in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission Hardback
by Maya Warrier
Part of the Routledge South Asian Religion Series series
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This book explores devotional Hinduism in a modern context of high consumerism and revolutionised communications.
It focuses on a fast-growing and high-profile contemporary Hindu guru faith originating in India and attracting a transnational following.
The organisation is led by a vastly popular female guru, Mata Amritanandamayi, whom devotees worship as an avatar and a healer of the ills of the contemporary world.
By drawing upon multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork among the mata's primarily urban, educated 'middle class' Indian devotees, the author provides crucial insights into new trends in popular Hinduism in a post-colonial and rapidly modernising Indian setting.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:196 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:17/12/2004
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- ISBN:9780415339889
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:196 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:17/12/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415339889
