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Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas

HOLLY WALTERS (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

294 Seiten

2020
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6372-172-1 (ISBN)

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For roughly two thousand years, the veneration of sacred fossil ammonites, called Shaligrams, has been an important part of Hindu and Buddhist ritual practice throughout South Asia and among the global Diaspora. Originating from a single remote region of Himalayan Nepal, called Mustang, Shaligrams are all at once fossils, divine beings, and intimate kin with families and worshippers. Through their lives, movements, and materiality, Shaligrams then reveal fascinating new dimensions of religious practice, pilgrimage, and politics. But as social, environmental, and national conflicts in the politically-contentious region of Mustang continue to escalate, the geologic, mythic, and religious movements of Shaligrams have come to act as parallels to the mobility of people through both space and time. Shaligram mobility therefore traverses through multiple social worlds, multiple religions, and multiple nations revealing Shaligram practitioners as a distinct, alternative, community struggling for a place in a world on the edge.

Dr. Holly Walters is a cultural anthropologist (Wellesley College, Massachusetts) whose work focuses on sacred objects, ritual practices, pilgrimage, and mobility in South Asia. Her work also addresses the interpretation of fossils as texts and the challenges of religious revival online.

Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
Chapter 1 - Living Fossils
Chapter 2 - Spiral Notebooks
Chapter 3 - Picked Up Pieces
Chapter 4 - A Mirror to Our Being
Chapter 5 - A Bridge to Everywhere
Chapter 6 - Turning to Stone
Chapter 7 - The River Road
Chapter 8 - Ashes and Immortality
Conclusion - Touch Stones
Primary Sources
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Verlagsort	Amsterdam
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	94-6372-172-X / 946372172X
ISBN-13	978-94-6372-172-1 / 9789463721721
Zustand	Neuware