Religion and commodification: 'merchandizing' diasporic Hinduism/
Vineeta Sinha
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- 228p. : ill. ; 24cm.
- Routledge research in religion, media and culture, 1 .
Everyday Hindu religiosity and ritual objects -- "Mapping" spaces and objects : "diaspora Hinduism" and "puja items". Homes for gods : prayer altars for family shrines -- Visual representations of Hindu divinity : disentangling "material" from "deity" from "commodity". Flowers for worship, flowers for sale : straddling the "sacred" and the "secular". Religion and commodification : what are the possibilities for enchantment?.
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Hinduism -- Singapore. Religious supplies industry -- Singapore. Hinduism.