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Title Indian religion / edited by Richard Burghart and Audrey Cantlie
Published London : Curzon Press ; New York : St. Martin Press, 1985

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Description xi, 258 pages ; 23 cm
Series Collected papers on South Asia ; no. 7
Collected papers on South Asia ; no. 7
Contents Introduction: Theoretical approaches in the anthropology of South Asia / Richard Burghart -- The concept of nirvana in village Buddhism / Martin Southwold -- The Aghori ascetics of Benares / Jonathan P. Parry -- The Indian renouncer: structure and transformation in a Lingayat community / N.J. Bradford -- Initiation and consecration: priestly rituals in a South Indian temple / C.J. Fuller -- Vaishnava reform sects in Assam / Audrey Cantlie -- Lordship and caste in Hindu discourse / Ronald Inden -- Paradigms of body symbolism: an analysis of selected themes in Hindu culture / Veena Das -- Some phenomenological observations on the study of Indian religion / A. Piatigorsky
Analysis South Asia Religions
Notes South Asia. Religions (BNB/PRECIS)
Bibliography Includes bibliographies
SUBJECT India -- Religious life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115447
South Asia -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010111773
Author Burghart, Richard.
Cantlie, Audrey.
LC no. 84015115
ISBN 0312414005