Diaspora of the Gods Modern Hindu Temples in an Urban Middle-Class World

Name: Diaspora of the Gods Modern Hindu Temples in an Urban Middle-Class World
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ISBN: 9780195156638

ISBN-10: 0195156633

ISBN-13: 9780195156638

Edition: 2004

Authors: Joanne Punzo Waghorne

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Many Hindus today are urban middle-class people with many religious values in common with their professional counterparts in America or Europe. Just as so many modern professionals continue to build new churches, synagogues, and mosques, contemporary Hindus attend to the construction and maintenance of their religious institutions wherever their work and life takes them. In Diaspora of the Gods, Joanne Punzo Waghorne traces the changing religious sensibilities of the Hindu middle class. Waghorne leads her readers on a journey through the world of the new Hindu middle-class, focusing on their efforts to build and support places of worship. She invites the reader into the neighborhoods of…

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List price: $180.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/16/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 9.40" wide x 6.30" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Note on the transliteration of a layered language


Introduction : new houses for the gods in an urban world


Hindu temples in the new world system, 1640-1800


Mylapore : the recovery of "ancient" temples in an inner-city neighborhood


The gentrification of the goddess


Portable stone : Murugan, Amman, and globalized localism


Conclusion/s : making space for god/s in an urban world