Clothing as Devotion in Contemporary Hinduism

Clothing as Devotion in Contemporary Hinduism PDF Author: Urmila Mohan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004419136
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Book Description
Urmila Mohan draws on her ethnography of Hindu devotional practices in Iskcon, India, to explore cloth and clothing as “efficacious intimacy”, that is, embodied processes that shape practitioners as devotees, connecting them with the divine and the larger community.