Goddess Lives in Upstate New York Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple

Name: Goddess Lives in Upstate New York Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple
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ISBN: 9780195187304

ISBN-10: 019518730X

ISBN-13: 9780195187304

Edition: 2005

Authors: Corinne G. Dempsey

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The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York is a profile of a flourishing Hindu temple in the town of Rush, New York. The temple, established by a charismatic nonbrahman Sri Lankan Tamil known as Aiya, stands out for its combination of orthodox ritual meticulousness and socioreligious iconoclasm. The vitality with which devotees participate in ritual themselves and their ready access to the deities contrasts sharply with ritual activities at most North American Hindu temples, where (following the usual Indian custom) ritual is performed only by priests and access to the highly sanctified divine images is closely guarded. Drawing on several years of fieldwork, Dempsey weaves traditional South…

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List price: $57.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction : a temple trip



Encounters with divinity : ritual power and miracles



Temple entryways



Perspectives on ritual power : the cost, science, and grace of divinity



Visions and versions of the miraculous



The work of a guru : bridge building and boundary breaking



Maverick guru with a cause



The changing faces of temple worship : the young, the women, and the rest



A fine balance : the give and take of religious discipline



Temple inhabitants : making home in a world of impermanence



Grounding the sacred : traveling deities and sanctified terrain



Expanding turf for racial and religious others



Making home at the Sri Rajarajeswari pitham


Conclusion : a good place to start