Religion in India
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- xvii, 460 p. ill. ; 22 cm.
- (Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social anthropology) .
The Quran -- A folk diety of Tamil Nad: Aiyanar, the Lord -- The evil eye -- Hindu values of life: Karma and Dharma -- Purity and pollution -- The Toda diary -- The meaning of space in the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy -- Sinking flowers at Hardwar -- Kashi: city of all India -- Cocepts of space in ritual -- Cyclical time: Durgapuja in Bengal: concepts, actions, objects -- Time renewed: Ratha jatra in Puri -- Murtipuja in Svetambar Jain temples -- Mangala among the Coorgs -- The pilgrimage to Ajmer -- Morarram (Continued) Saora shamans and shamanins -- Sathya Sai Baba's miracles -- Hindu temple priests -- Gaya priests and their social networks -- Five symbols of Sikh identity -- Elements of communalism -- The radical and protesting asectic -- Christian fundamentalism as counter-culture -- The logic of religious violence -- Secularism in its place.