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Religion Against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals Book

Religion Against the Self : Hardback : Oxford University Press Inc : 9780195113648 : 0195113640 : 01 Feb 2002 : This book provides a holistic description of Hinduism, showing how different types of Hinduism form a 'total' or systematic cosmology and repeat crucial values through different symbols. Looking at Tamil religious practices, Isabelle Nabokov reveals that Tamil religion is primarily concerned with transformations of identity and subjectivity, both in this world and in the hereafter.Read More

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  • Product Description

    In this comprehensive analysis of South Indian village Hinduism, Isabelle Nabokov shows that a wide spectrum of Tamil rituals effects transformations of identity through similar processual and symbolic operations. She reveals that such operations may lead participants to adopt personalities which are at odds with themselves.

  • 0195113640
  • 9780195113648
  • Isabelle Nabokov
  • 19 October 2000
  • OUP USA
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 256
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