Gods of Flesh, Gods of Stone by Joanne Punzo Waghorne

Gods of Flesh, Gods of Stone by Joanne Punzo Waghorne

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Drawing from topics of religion in India such as bhakti, puja rituals, and spirit posessions, these essays offer a close study of the physical representations of god as the central feature of Hinduism. A valuable tool for students of anthroplogy and the philosophy and history of religion.

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Gods of Flesh, Gods of Stone by Joanne Punzo Waghorne

This work describes the embodiment of divinity in India.
Joanne Waghorne works in contemporary theoretical directions in the study of religion, especially issues of emerging religious/spiritual organizations, practices, and self understanding in the present era of mass communication, urbanization, and globalization. Spatial theory, cosmopolitanism, concepts of the public sphere, world systems, and visual studies inform her interdisciplinary approach which she works to integrate with her roots in History of Religions and phenomenology. Her concerns include revisioning World Religions/Comparative Religion in a post-colonial/post-modern era. Her publications contextualize these issues in contemporary urban India and in Singapore, and in the Hindu diaspora. Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright, and the American Institute of Indian Studies have supported her fieldwork in India. Recently she was a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellow and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Research Institute (Globalization and Religion cluster), National University of Singapore, researching gurus, devotees, and their international organizations from Singapore.
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ISBN 13 9780231107778
ISBN 10 0231107773
Title Gods of Flesh, Gods of Stone
Author Joanne Punzo Waghorne
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Columbia University Press
Year published 1996-11-06
Number of pages 208
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