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Title Sacred matters : material religion in South Asian traditions / edited by Tracy Pintchman and Corinne G. Dempsey.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 232 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Tracy Pintchman -- Icon of Yoga: Patañjali as Nāgarāja in modern Yoga / Stuart Ray Sarbacker -- God's eyes: the manufacture, installation, and experience of external eyes on Jain icons / John E. Cort -- North Indian materialities of Jesus / Mathew N. Schmalz -- Celebrating materiality: Garbo, a festival image of the Goddess in Gujarat / Neelima Shukla-Bhatt -- Goddess's shaligrams / Tracy Pintchman -- Camphor flame in an age of mechanical reproduction / James McHugh -- Metal hands, cotton threads, and color flags: materializing Islamic devotion in south India / Afsar Mohammad -- Monastic matters: bowls, robes, and the middle way in South Asian Theravāda Buddhism / Bradley Clough -- Letting holy water and coconuts speak for themselves: Tamil Catholicism and the work of Selva Raj / Selva J. Raj and Corinne Dempsey.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Southeast Asia -- Religious life and customs.
Southeast Asia.
Religious articles -- Southeast Asia.
Religious articles.
Southeast Asians -- Material culture.
Southeast Asians.
Material culture.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Pintchman, Tracy, editor.
Dempsey, Corinne G., editor.
Other Form: Print version: Sacred matters 9781438459431 (DLC) 2015008210 (OCoLC)906447515
ISBN 9781438459448 (electronic book)
1438459440 (electronic book)
9781438459431
1438459432
9781438459424
1438459424