The Experience of Hinduism

Essays on Religion in Maharashtra

Eleanor Zelliot, Rita Maxine Berntsen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

414 Seiten

1988
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-88706-664-1 (ISBN)

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This book presents multi-faceted images of religious experience in the Marathi-speaking region of India. In addition to Irawati Karve's classic, "On the Road," about her pilgrimage to Pandharpur, there are three essays by Karve that appear in English for the first time. Here is possession by gods and ghosts, an actual sermon by an inspired saint in the traditional bhajan style, and an autobiographical account of the religious nationalism of the militant R.S.S. These are engaging, true-to-life accounts of the lives of individual Hindus.

Essays and imaginative literature, a poem, and a short story interplay the ideas, concepts, personalities, practices, rituals, and deities of Hinduism in a surprisingly coherent manner.

Eleanor Zelliot is Professor of History at Carleton College. She has published extensively in the area of social and cultural history of Western India. Maxine Berntsen received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. She has been living in India since 1966, and in 1978 became an Indian citizen. She resides in Phaltan, Maharashtra, where she has established two schools. She is also the co-author of a six-volume book on the Marathi language.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.1988
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
ISBN-10	0-88706-664-X / 088706664X
ISBN-13	978-0-88706-664-1 / 9780887066641
Zustand	Neuware