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" Dealing with deities : "
edited by Selva J. Raj and William P. Harman.
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BL
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1040995
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b795365
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Dealing with deities : : the ritual vow in South Asia /\ edited by Selva J. Raj and William P. Harman.
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, ©2006.
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1 online resource (xix, 287 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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0791467074
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: 0791482006
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: 1423780078
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: 9780791467077
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: 9780791482001
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: 9781423780076
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: the deal with deities -- ways vows work in South Asia / Selva J. Raj and William P. Harman -- "The vow": a short story / Shankarrao Kharat -- Negotiating relationships with the goddess / William P. Harman -- Shared vows, shared space, and shared deities: vow rituals among Tamil Catholics in South India / Selva J. Raj -- Religious vows at the Shrine of Shahul Hamid / Vasudha Narayanan -- In the company of pirs: making vows, receiving favors at Bangladeshi Sufi shrines / Sufia Uddin -- Bara: Buddhist vows at Kataragama / Sunil Goonasekera -- Performing vows in diasporic contexts: Tamil Hindus, temples, and goddesses in Germany / Martin Baumann -- Singing a vow: devoting oneself to Shiva through song / Karen Pechilis -- Monastic vows and the Ramananda Sampraday / Ramdas Lamb -- Negotiating karma, merit, and liberation: vow-taking in the Jain tradition / M. Whitney Kelting -- Vows in the Sikh tradition / Louis E. Fenech and Pashaura Singh -- When vows fail to deliver what they promise: the case of Shyamavati / Tracy Pintchman -- Two critiques of women's vows / Jack E. Llewellyn -- Toward a typology of South Asian lay vows / Selva J. Raj and William P. Harman.
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Annotation
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Vows.
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RELIGION-- Inspirational.
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SELF-HELP-- Spiritual.
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Vows
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South Asia, Religious life and customs.
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South Asia
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204/.46
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BL1055.D44 2006eb
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Harman, William P.,1946-
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Raj, Selva J.
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