A Place for Our Gods

The Construction of an Edinburgh Hindu Temple Community

Malory Nye (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

1995
Routledge (Verlag)
9780700703562 (ISBN)

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An anthropological micro-study of about 150 Hindu families living in Edinburgh, and about the fact that two associations exist among them - one of which is based on activities at a temple. The author explores why there is a temple in Edinburgh, and the community associated with it.

Authored by Nye, Malory

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 An ‘Ethnic’ Community; Chapter 3 Hinduism in a Diaspora Context; Chapter 4 The Edinburgh Hindu Mandir And Sanskritic Kendra; Chapter 5 The Mandir Satsang; Chapter 6 Devotional Worship—Bhajans and Satsangs; Chapter 7 Festivals at the Mandir; Chapter 8 The Edinburgh Indian Association; Chapter 9 Religion, Society, and the Construction of Community;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.11.1995
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	640 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9780700703562 / 9780700703562
Zustand	Neuware