Religious Festivals in South India and Sri Lanka Welbon Yocum Hardback

Religious Festivals in South India and Sri LankaAuthor(s): Guy R. Welbon, Glenn E. Yocum\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors, India\nImprint: Manohar Publishers and Distributors\nISBN-13: 9789394262461, 978-9394262461\nSynopsis\nExciting celebrations in special time, religious festivals are more than colorful public spectacles. They are mirrors and windows in and through which a full range of human values and concerns whether religious, aesthetic, social, economic and political can be seen. In this volume, twelve scholars explore various dimensions of meaning in some of the many festivals that are vigorously conducted in South India and Sri Lanka. Approaching their subjects from several interdisciplinary perspectives, the authors base their descriptions and interpretations on primary sources: literary documents, their own first-hand observations, and, frequently, a productive combination of textual and contextual data. The essays included to unravel th.