Religion and commodification
Subtitle: "merchandizing" diasporic Hinduism
By: Vineeta Sinha
Series: Routledge research in religion, media, and culture -- 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780415873635; 9780203842799
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Everyday Hindu religiosity and ritual objects; title: "Mapping" spaces and objects : "diaspora Hinduism" and "puja items"; title: Homes for gods : prayer altars for family shrines; title: Visual representations of Hindu divinity : disentangling "material" from "deity" from "commodity"; title: Flowers for worship, flowers for sale : straddling the "sacred" and the "secular"; title: Religion and commodification : what are the possibilities for enchantment.