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100 1 Sarbadhikary, Sukanya,|d1983-|eauthor.
245 14 The place of devotion :|bsiting and experiencing divinity
in Bengal-Vaishnavism /|cSukanya Sarbadhikary.
264 1 Oakland, California :|bUniversity of California Press,
|c[2015]
264 4 |c©2015
300 1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) :|billustrations (some
color).
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 computer|bc|2rdamedia
338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier
490 1 South Asia across the disciplines ;|v23
504 Includes bibliographical references (page 239-260) and
index.
505 0 Introduction : siting and experiencing divinity in Bengal-
Vaishnavism -- Discovering Gupta-Vrindavan : finding
selves and places in the storied landscape -- Imagining in
Gupta-Vrindvan : experiencing the self and emotions in the
mind-heart landscape -- Bodying Gupta-Vrindavan :
experiencing the self and emotions in the corporeal space
-- Serving Gupta-Vrindavan : devotional service in the
physical place and the workings of the "International
society" -- Listening to Vrindavan : chanting and musical
experience as embodying a devotional soundscape --
Conclusion.
520 "The anthropology of Hinduism has amply established that
Hindus have strong involvement with sacred geography. The
Hindu sacred topography is dotted with innumerable
pilgrimage places, and popular Hinduism is abundant with
spatial imaginings. Thus Shiva and his partner, the mother
goddess, live in the Himalayas, goddesses descend on earth
as beautiful rivers, the goddess Kali's body parts are
imagined to have fallen in various sites of Hindu
geography sanctifying them as sacred centres, and yogis
meditate in forests. Bengal similarly has a thriving
culture of exalting sacred centres and pilgrimage places,
one of the most important among them being the Navadvip-
Mayapur sacred complex, Bengal's greatest site of guru-
centred Vaishnavite pilgrimage and devotional life. The
main question my book seeks to answer is what sites and
senses of place beyond physical geographical ones can do
to our notions of space/place, affect, and sanctity. While
the contemporary anthropology of place and embodiment,
following Edward Casey's philosophy (1993), is dominated
by the idea of body-in-place, my book seeks to extend his
formulations by also analysing cultural constructions and
experiences of place in the body, mind etc. Traveling
through both exterior and interior landscapes, I show that
the practitioner inhabits Krishna's world through every
daily religious practice. The synaesthesia that results
from the overlap of these different planes of experience
confirms the intensely transformative power of Vaishnava
ritual processes"--Provided by publisher.
588 Description based on online resource; title from PDF title
page (Luminos, viewed October 29, 2015).
650 0 Vaishnavism|zIndia|zBengal.
650 0 Sacred space|zIndia|zBengal.
650 0 Anthropology of religion|zIndia|zBengal.
650 7 Anthropology of religion.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01738842
650 7 Sacred space.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01103191
650 7 Vaishnavism.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01163740
650 7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion.|2bisacsh
651 7 India|zBengal.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01213579
655 7 Electronic books.|2lcgft
776 08 |iPrint version:|aSarbadhikary, Sukanya, 1983-|tPlace of
devotion.|dOakland, California : University of California
Press, [2015]|z9780520287716|w(DLC) 2015007907
|w(OCoLC)906171639
830 0 South Asia across the disciplines ;|v23.
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