Hindu Selves in a Modern World: Guru Faith in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission (Routled...
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Hindu Selves in a Modern World: Guru Faith in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission (Routledge South Asian Religion Series)
Book Details
- Author
- Maya Warrier
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- India
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780415339889
- ISBN-10
- 041533988X
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ISBN: 041533988X
Author: Warrier, Maya
Condition: New
This book explores devotional Hinduism in a modern context of high consumerism and revolutionised communications. It focuses on a fast-growing and high-profile contemporary Hindu guru faith originating in India and attracting a transnational following. The organisation is led by a vastly popular female guru, Mata Amritanandamayi, whom devotees worship as an avatar and a healer of the ills of the contemporary world. By drawing upon multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork among the mata's primarily urban, educated 'middle class' Indian devotees, the author provides crucial insights into new trends in popular Hinduism in a post-colonial and rapidly modernising Indian setting.
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