{"product_id":"hindu-ritual-at-the-margins-linda-penkower-9781611173895","title":"Hindu Ritual at the Margins: Innovations, Transformations, Reconsiderations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHindu Ritual at the Margins\u003c\/i\u003e explores Hindu forms of ritual activity in a variety of \"marginal\" contexts. The contributors collectively examine ritual practices in diaspora; across gender, ethnic, social, and political groups; in film, text, and art; in settings where ritual itself or direct discussion of ritual is absent; in contexts that create new opportunities for traditionally marginalized participants or challenge the received tradition; and via theoretical perspectives that have been undervalued in the academy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first of three sections, contributors explore the ways in which Hindu ritual performed in Indian contexts intersects with historical, contextual, and social change. They examine the changing significance and understanding of particular deities, the identity and agency of ritual actors, and the instrumentality of ritual in new media. Essays in the second section examine ritual practices outside of India, focusing on evolving ritual claims to authority in mixed cultures (such as Malaysia), the reshaping of gender dynamics of ritual at an American temple, and the democratic reshaping of ritual forms in Canadian Hindu communities. The final section considers the implications for ritual studies of the efficacy of bodily acts divorced from intention, contemporary spiritual practice as opposed to religious-bound ritual, and the notion of dharma. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on a conference on Hindu ritual held in 2006 at the University of Pittsburgh, \u003ci\u003eHindu Ritual at the Margins\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to elucidate the ways ritual actors come to shape ritual practices or conceptions pertaining to ritual and how studying ritual in marginal contexts--at points of dynamic tension--requires scholars to reshape their understanding of ritual activity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Linda Penkower\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1611173892\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781611173895\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/29\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Linda Penkower","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43938781921535,"sku":"9781611173895","price":52.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_2a95c54f-eb6c-4934-9253-260a6184bb33.jpg?v=1681437685","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hindu-ritual-at-the-margins-linda-penkower-9781611173895","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}