Touchable Gods: Improvised Icons, Irreverent Rituals and Intimate Kinship with Deities in Rural Tamil Nadu
Village and tutelary deities have been characterized as fierce, capricious, or at least ambiguous. This article explores another facet of these polysemous divinities: their kinship with their adherents. Against the thrust of recent emphases on the gentrification of rural cults, the interventions of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox
2019
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Religions of South Asia
Year: 2019, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 230–251 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Tamil Nadu
/ Rural area
/ Religious community
/ Protective deity
/ Informelle Beziehung
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Material Religion
B Intimacy B Irreverence B Village Rituals B Tutelary Deities B Folk Hinduism |
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