Srinivas Wonder in South Asia

Histories, Aesthetics, Ethics
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9529-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Religious Studies

A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Srinivas, Tulasi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Wondering about Wonder: An Introduction
Tulasi Srinivas

Section 1. Histories of Wonder

1. Wonders Never Cease: An Ethnographic Panorama
Ann Grodzins Gold

2. Weird Tales: Ganesh, Idolatry, and the Golden Age of American Pulp Fiction
William Elison

3. Did the Masters of Disenchantment Ever Wonder? India in the Nineteenth-Century American Evangelical Imaginary
Mary Hancock

Section 2. Aesthetics of Wonder

4. Wonder: Spirit Mediumship and Devotional Music at a Mumbai Shrine of the Sidi Ancestor-Saints
Jazmin Graves Eyssallenne

5. Wonder as Affect on the Kuchipudi Stage
Harshita Mruthinti Kamath

6. In the Vicinity of Wonder: Thirunangai Devotees of Angalamman and Narratives of Moral Astonishment
Aniruddhan Vasudevan

7. Wonder in the Cremation Ground: The Affective and Transformative Dimensions of an Urban Tamil Festival
Amy L. Allocco

8. Economies of Wonder: The Production of Spectacle at the Kumbh Mela
Amanda Lucia

Section 3. Ethics of Wonder

9. Scarcity, Abundance, and Money at Muslim Saint Shrines in North India
Quinn A. Clark

10. On Wondrous Moments as the Basis for a Swaminarayan Ethics of Sociality
Hanna H. Kim

11. “Guruji Rocked. Duniya Shocked”: Wondertraps and the Camerawork Guruship of Dera Sacha Sauda Guru Dr. Saint Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan
Jacob Copeman and Koonal Duggal
available via OpenAccess here

Conclusion The Worlds of Wonder
Tulasi Srinivas
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tulasi Srinivas is Professor of Anthropology, Religion, and Transnational Studies at Emerson College. She is the author of The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder and Winged Faith: Rethinking Religious Pluralism and Globalization through the Satya Sai Movement, and the coeditor, with Krishnendu Ray, of Curried Cultures: Globalization, Food, and South Asia.