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100			_aFuller C J
245			_aThe Camphor Flame _bPopular Hinduism and Society in India _cC J Fuller _hEnglish
260			_aNew Jersey _bPrinceton University Press _c2004
300			_aviii-343 p. ; _bSoft bound _c15.5 * 23 cm
505			_aChapter 1 POPULAR HINDUISM AND INDIAN SOCIETY Chapter 2 GODS AND GODDESSES Chapter 3 WORSHIP Chapter 4 SACRIFICE Chapter 5 RITUALS OF KINGSHIP Chapter 6 RITUALS OF THE VILLAGE Chapter 7 DEVOTIONALIST MOVEMENTS Chapter 8 DEVOTIONALISM, GODDESSES, AND WOMEN Chapter 9 PILGRIMAGE Chapter 10 MISFORTUNE Chapter 11 CONCLUSION Afterword POPULAR HINDUISM AND HINDU NATIONALISM APPENDIX THE HINDU CALENDAR
520			_aPopular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans is a central theme of this rich and accessible study of popular Hinduism in the context of the society of contemporary India. Lucidly organized and skillfully written, The Camphor Flame brings clarity to an immensely complicated subject. C. J. Fuller combines ethnographic case studies with comparative anthropological analysis and draws on textual and historical scholarship as well. The book's new afterword brings the study up-to-date by examining the relationship between popular Hinduism and contemporary Hindu nationalism.
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