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008 050520s2006 nyuab b s001 0 eng
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050 00 $aBL1055$b.D44 2006
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245 00 $aDealing with deities :$bthe ritual vow in South Asia /$cedited by Selva J. Raj and William P. Harman.
260 $aAlbany :$bState University of New York Press,$cc2006.
300 $axix, 287 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: the deal with deities--ways vows work in South Asia / Selva J. Raj and William P. Harman -- "The vow": a short story / Shankarrao Kharat -- Negotiating relationships with the goddess / William P. Harman -- Shared vows, shared space, and shared deities: vow rituals among Tamil Catholics in South India / Selva J. Raj -- Religious vows at the Shrine of Shahul Hamid / Vasudha Narayanan -- In the company of pirs: making vows, receiving favors at Bangladeshi Sufi shrines / Sufia Uddin -- Bara: Buddhist vows at Kataragama / Sunil Goonasekera -- Performing vows in diasporic contexts: Tamil Hindus, temples, and goddesses in Germany / Martin Baumann -- Singing a vow: devoting oneself to Shiva through song / Karen Pechilis -- Monastic vows and the Ramananda Sampraday / Ramdas Lamb -- Negotiating karma, merit, and liberation: vow-taking in the Jain tradition / M. Whitney Kelting -- Vows in the Sikh tradition / Louis E. Fenech and Pashaura Singh -- When vows fail to deliver what they promise: the case of Shyamavati / Tracy Pintchman -- Two critiques of women's vows / Jack E. Llewellyn -- Toward a typology of South Asian lay vows / Selva J. Raj and William P. Harman.
651 0 $aSouth Asia$xReligious life and customs.
650 0 $aVows.
700 1 $aRaj, Selva J.
700 1 $aHarman, William P.,$d1946-