The goddess lives in upstate New York : breaking convention and making home at a North American Hindu temple.
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 devot...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a temple trip
- pt. I Encounters with divinity : ritual power and miracles
- Temple entryways
- Perspectives on ritual power : the cost, science, and grace of divinity
- Visions and versions of the miraculous
- pt. II The work of a guru : bridge building and boundary breaking
- Maverick guru with a cause
- The changing faces of temple worship : the young, the women, and the rest
- A fine balance : the give and take of religious discipline
- pt. III Temple inhabitants : making home in a world of impermanence
- Grounding the sacred : traveling deities and sanctified terrain
- Expanding turf for racial and religious others
- Making home at the Sri Rajarajeswari pitham
- Conclusion : a good place to start.
