| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Foreword / Brian K. Pennington, Amy L. Allocco -- Introduction : Homes and spaces under transformation / James Ponniah, Amitha Santiago -- Part I. Coloniality/post-coloniality, migrants, and home-making. -- The memsahib and her home in the Indian colony : a shadow of the political realm in the domestic sphere? / Rituparna Ray Chowdhury -- Home and sacred place in the letters of Gertrude Sovik : a Norwegian-American in China / L. DeAne Lagerquist -- Old identities in a new space : the role of Hindu priests in making diasporic communities feel at home in Mumbai / Usha R. Vijailakshmi -- The Ramakrishna movement in Japan as seen through the activities of the Nippon Vēdānta Society / Midori Horiuchi -- Reconfiguring home : cuisinic negotiations of religion, culture, and identity in Marsha Mehran's Pomegranate soup / Lisa John Mundackal -- Part II. Traditions, female agency, and domestic space. -- Searching for the quintessential home : home-making and trans-identity / S. Susan Deborah -- Pushing boundaries : negotiations of power in the domestic space / Kochurani Abraham -- Women make it work : the story of inter-religious marriages in urban India / James Ponniah -- Women and the "bratas" : the practice of vows among rural women in Bengal / Trayee Sinha -- Part III. Religion, literature, and home-making. -- Bayit ze isha : housing the body of the woman through spatializing metaphors / Amitha Santiago -- Contextualizing place in Sri Lanka through popular literature / Dilini Wijkeweera, Surangi Gunawardena, Dimantha Weliange -- Terra firma and transcendent space : a hagiographic study of "Arunachala" in Sri Ramana Maharishi's life and works / V. Bharathi Harishankar |
| Summary |
Culture, Religion, and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia explores how the idea of the home is repurposed or re-envisioned in relation to experiences of modernity, urbanization, conflict, migration and displacement. Ponniah examines the various contestations surrounding the categories of "home" and "religion," including interfaith families, urban spaces, and sacred places |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 06, 2020) |
| Subject |
Home -- South Asia
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Home -- South Asia -- Religious aspects
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Sacred space -- South Asia
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Home
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Home -- Religious aspects
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Sacred space
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South Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ponniah, James, 1969- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781506439938 |
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1506439934 |
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