Religion Against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals

by Isabelle Nabokov and Isabelle Clark-Deces

Book Overview

This book provides a holistic description of Hinduism, showing how different types of Hinduism form a "total" or systematic cosmology and repeat crucial values through different symbols. Looking at Tamil religious practices, Isabelle Nabokov reveals that Tamil religion is primarily concerned with transformations of identity and subjectivity, both in this world and in the hereafter.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195113659
• ISBN13: 9780195113655
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"