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Playing Host to Deity: Festival Religion in the South Indian Tradition
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Playing Host to Deity: Festival Religion in the South Indian Tradition Hardback - 2001

by Paul Younger

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The annual festivals that are central to the south Indian religious tradition are among the largest religious gatherings found anywhere in the world. Most are located at Hindu temples, but some are at Buddhist, Christian, or Islamic centers, and many involve people or symbols from more than one religious tradition. To an observer, the activities of a festival may seem chaotic, but the participants consider the activities the ritual focus of a distinct religious experience, and frequently testify that it is in the activity of a festival that they find their most profound sense of religious meaning. Here, Younger offers a fieldwork-based study of fourteen different religious festivals, shedding light on not only their religious, but also their social and political meanings.

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The classical Tamil grammar, written by Tolkappiyan before the beginning of the Christian era, identified five types of geographical regions that poets might use symbolically.

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  • Title Playing Host to Deity: Festival Religion in the South Indian Tradition
  • Author Paul Younger
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A
  • Publication date 2001-11-29
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780195140446 / 0195140443
  • Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.63 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.60 cm)
  • Reading level 1560
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Hindu
  • Category Religion - Church History
  • Library of Congress subjects Fasts and feasts - Hinduism - India, South
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00033621
  • Dewey Decimal Code 294.536

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  • Choice, 07/01/2002, Page 1980
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