ISBN:
978-0-8223-7079-6
,
978-0-8223-7064-2
,
978-0-8223-7192-2 /eBook
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 269 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
DDC:
294.5/4
Keywords:
Indien Religion und Gesellschaft
;
Hinduismus
;
Ethik
;
Wunder
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Gesellschaft, moderne
;
Globalisierung, kulturelle
;
Ritual und Zeremonie
;
Bangalore 〈Stadt, Indien〉
Abstract:
In The Cow in the Elevator Tulasi Srinivas explores a wonderful world where deities jump fences and priests ride in helicopters to present a joyful, imaginative, yet critical reading of modern religious life. Drawing on nearly two decades of fieldwork with priests, residents, and devotees, and her own experience of living in the hi-tech city of Bangalore, Srinivas finds moments where ritual enmeshes with global modernity to create wonder-a feeling of amazement at being overcome by the unexpected and sublime. Offering a nuanced account of how the ruptures of modernity can be made normal, enrapturing, and even comical in a city swept up in globalization's tumult, Srinivas brings the visceral richness of wonder-apparent in creative ritual in and around Hindu temples-into the anthropological gaze. Broaching provocative philosophical themes like desire, complicity, loss, time, money, technology, and the imagination, Srinivas pursues an interrogation of wonder and the adventure of writing true to its experience. The Cow in the Elevator rethinks the study of ritual while reshaping our appreciation of wonder's transformative potential for scholarship and for life.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Wonder, creativity, and ethical life in Bangalore -- Adventures in modern dwelling -- Interlude: into the Abyss -- Passionate journeys: from aesthetics to ethics -- Interlude: Up in the sky -- In God we trust: economies of wonder and philosophies of debt -- Technologies of wonder -- Timeless imperatives, obsolescence, and salvage -- Conclusion: a place for radical hope -- Afterword: the tanacity of hope -- Notes -- References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 247 - 264
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