Religion and Commodification: 'Merchandizing' Diasporic Hinduism

by Vineeta Sinha

Book Overview

Sustaining a Hindu universe at an everyday life level requires an extraordinary range of religious specialists and ritual paraphernalia. At the level of practice, devotional Hinduism is an embodied religion and grounded in a materiality, that makes the presence of specific physical objects (which when used in worship also carry immense ritual and symbolic load) an indispensable part of its religious practices.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415873630
• ISBN13: 9780415873635
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"