Hindu Selves in a Modern World : Guru Faith in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission
Hindu Selves in a Modern World : Guru Faith in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission
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Author(s): Warrier, Maya
ISBN No.: 9780415339889
Pages: 200
Year: 200412
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 213.93
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (On Demand)

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 a vastly 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.


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