Everyday Hinduism / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger.

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"This new introductory textbook provides a refreshingly innovative introduction to Hinduism through an exploration of its contemporary, everyday practice"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
Subjects:
Hinduism > Textbooks.
RELIGION > Hinduism > General.
Hinduism.
Hinduismus.
Religionsausübung.
Textbooks.
Genre:
Textbooks.
Physical Description:xi, 244 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction:
  • The terms "Hindu," "Hinduism," and "Hindu traditions" ; Dharma: a way of life and religious tradition ; Context and multiplicity ; Ethnographic selection and chapter topics
  • A note on Caste
  • 1. Families of deities:
  • The Trimurti ; Mythological and narrative families ; Vishnu ; Shiva ; Devi, the goddess ; Gramadevatas, village deities ;Temple families ; Ritual families in domestic shrines
  • 2. Oral and visual narratives and theologies:
  • Oral performance genres ; Visual narratives and theologies ; Verbal and visual together ; Where does the narrative lie? ; The Ramayana tradition performed
  • 3. Loving and serving God: Bhakti, Murtis, and Puja:
  • Bhakti, devotion ; Singing to God and the Goddess ; Worshipping deities in material form ; Narratives of God in the Murti ; The deity without form ; Modes of worshipping the Murti ; The services of Puja ; Online, cyber Puja
  • 4. Temples, shrines, and pilgrimage:
  • Temples ; Sthala Puranas ; Temple architecture ; Temple worship ; Shrines ; Pilgrimage ; Tirumala, a southern, pan-Indian, and transnational pilgrimage site ; Narshinghnath, a sub-regional pilgrimage site
  • 5. Festivals:
  • Divali: festival of lights ; Ganesha Chaturthi: domestic neighborhood, and city-wide celebrations ; Place-bound festivals: Tirupati's Gangamma Jatara
  • 6. Vrats: ritual vows and women's auspiciousness:
  • Temple Vrats ; Domestic Vrats ; Vrat Kathas: ritual narratives ; Two south Indian Vrat traditions ; Gender and Vrats
  • 7. Samskaras: transformative rites of passage:
  • Pregnancy and birth ; First-year Samskaras ; Upanayana and rituals of transition to adulthood ; Ranga Pravesham: ascending the (dance) stage ; Marriage ; Death rituals
  • 8. Ritual healing, possession, and astrology:
  • Accessing multiple healing sites ; Healing across religious boundaries ; Possession ; Astrology.