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Title Sacred matters : material religion in South Asian traditions / edited by Tracy Pintchman and Corinne G. Dempsey
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 232 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction / Tracy Pintchman -- The icon of Yoga: Patañjali as Nāgarāja in modern Yoga / Stuart Ray Sarbacker -- God's eyes: the manufacture, installation, and experience of external eyes on Jain icons / John E. Cort -- North Indian materialities of Jesus / Mathew N. Schmalz -- Celebrating materiality: Garbo, a festival image of the Goddess in Gujarat / Neelima Shukla-Bhatt -- The Goddess's shaligrams / Tracy Pintchman -- The camphor flame in an age of mechanical reproduction / James McHugh -- Metal hands, cotton threads, and color flags: materializing Islamic devotion in south India / Afsar Mohammad -- Monastic matters: bowls, robes, and the middle way in South Asian Theravāda Buddhism / Bradley Clough -- Letting holy water and coconuts speak for themselves: Tamil Catholicism and the work of Selva Raj / Selva J. Raj and Corinne Dempsey
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Religious articles -- Southeast Asia
Southeast Asians -- Material culture
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
RELIGION -- Essays.
RELIGION -- Reference.
Religious articles
SUBJECT Southeast Asia -- Religious life and customs
Subject Southeast Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Pintchman, Tracy, editor.
Dempsey, Corinne G., editor.
ISBN 9781438459448
1438459440