Everyday Hinduism by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger - 9781405160216

Everyday Hinduism\n\n\""Flueckiger draws on her wide-ranging ethnographic work to vividly illustrate and critically appreciate the stories, rituals, and materials of an ancient, complex, and continuously evolving tradition and invites readers to engage both the past and the modern in fresh and respectful ways. Imaginatively conceptualized, sensitive to variation, context and change, and beautifully written, Everyday Hinduism evokes a wonderful sense of the people-centered plural worlds of Hinduism.\""\n\u2014Leela Prasad, Duke University \n\""Clear, deft, and beautifully proportioned, Everyday Hinduism is exactly what\u2019s been missing as a major textbook resource for an introductory course on Hinduism. I am thrilled to see it: a wish fulfilled!\"".\""\n\u2014Professor John Stratton Hawley, Columbia University \n\""At last! Flueckiger's accessible introduction to contemporary Hinduism in practice could not be more welcome. This book successfully and respectfully illuminates dynamic inter]