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The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York: Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple
The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple
Author: Corinne G. Dempsey
Corinne Dempsey profiles an unusual South Indian temple community in Rush, New York, outside Rochester. The temple, established by a charismatic non-Brahman Sri Lankan Tamil, stands out for its combination of orthodox ritual meticulousness and socioreligious iconoclasm. The vitality with which devotees participate in ritual themselves and their ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195187298
ISBN-10: 0195187296
Publication Date: 12/15/2005
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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