Goddess Lives in Upstate New York [electronic resource] : Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple
Dempsey, Corinne G.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2006.
Corinne Dempsey profiles an unusual South Indian temple community in Rush, New York, outside Rochester. The temple, established by a charismatic non-Brahman Sri Lankan Tamil, stands out for its combination of orthodox ritual meticulousness and socioreligi
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Contents; Note on Transliteration; Introduction: A Temple Trip; PART I: Encounters with Divinity: Ritual Power and Miracles; 1. Temple Entryways; 2. Perspectives on Ritual Power: The Cost, Science, and Grace of Divinity; 3. Visions and Versions of the Miraculous; PART II: The Work of a Guru: Bridge Building and Boundary Breaking; 4. Maverick Guru with a Cause; 5. The Changing Faces of Temple Worship: The Young, the Women, and the Rest; 6. A Fine Balance: The Give and Take of Religious Discipline; PART III: Temple Inhabitants: Making Home in a World of Impermanence
Corinne Dempsey profiles an unusual South Indian temple community in Rush, New York, outside Rochester. The temple, established by a charismatic non-Brahman Sri Lankan Tamil, stands out for its combination of orthodox ritual meticulousness and socioreligi
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Srī Rājarājeśwarī Pītham (Rochester, N.Y.)
Rajarajeshvari (Hindu deity) -- Cult -- New York (State) -- Rochester.
Spiritual life -- Hinduism.
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Rajarajeshvari (Hindu deity)
Spiritual life
Religion
Philosophy & Religion
Hinduism