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The Camphor Flame

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Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relations...
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  • Publication Date: 15 August 2004
  • ISBN: 9780691120485
  • Pages: 368
  • Imprint: Princeton University Press
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Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings--a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. The fluid relationship between these beings and humans is a central theme of this rich and accessible study of popular Hinduism in the context of the society of contemporary India. Lucidly organized and skillfully written, The Camphor Flame brings clarity to an immensely complicated subject. C. J. Fuller combines ethnographic case studies with comparative anthropological analysis and draws on textual and historical scholarship as well. The book's new afterword brings the study up-to-date by examining the relationship between popular Hinduism and contemporary Hindu nationalism.

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Price: $53.00
Pages: 368
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: 15 August 2004
ISBN: 9780691120485
Format: Paperback
"The Camphor Flame is a book to read from cover to cover. . . .[A]n impressive and valuable book."---Kathleen M. Erndl, Journal of Asian Studies
C. J. Fuller is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His books include Servants of the Goddess (Cambridge) and The Renewal of the Priesthood (Princeton).