Hindu selves in a modern world
Subtitle: guru faith in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission
By: Maya Warrier.
Series: South Asian religion series
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Amr̥tānandamayi, Mātā, 1953-; Mata Amritanandamayi Mission.; Worship (Hinduism); Middle class -- India -- Religious aspects.; India -- Religion -- 20th century.
Description: "This book explores devotional Hinduism in a modern context of high consumerism and revolutionized communications. It focuses on a fast-growing and high-profile contemporary Hindu guru faith originating in India and attracting a transnational following. The organization is led by an extremely 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 modernizing Indian setting."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.