Orianne Aymard: When a Goddess Dies

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Ma Anandamayi is generally regarded as the most important Hindu woman saint of the twentieth century. Venerated alternately as a guru and as an incarnation of God on earth, Ma had hundreds of thousands of devotees. Through the creation of a religious movement and a vast network of ashramsunprecedented for a womanMa presented herself as an authority figure in a society where female gurus were not often recognized. Because of her widespread influence, Ma is one of the rare Hindu saints whose cult has outlived her. Today, her tomb is a place of veneration for those who knew her as well as new generations of her followers. By performing extensive fieldwork among Ma's current devotees, Orianne Aymard examines what happens to a cult after the death of its leader. Does it decline, stagnate, or grow? Or is it rather transformed into something else entirely? Aymard's work sheds new light not only on Hindu sainthoodand particularly female Hindu sainthoodbut on the nature of charismatic religious leadership and devotion.

Über den Autor

Orianne Aymard has been a Visiting Scholar at the South Asia Institute of Columbia University. She is currently a Research Associate at the Centre détudes et de recherche sur lInde, lAsie du Sud et sa diaspora (CERIAS), in Montreal

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Aspects of the Postmortem Cult of the Guru

Chapter 2: The Cult of Relics in Hinduism

Chapter 3: Death of the Guru

Chapter 4: Presence of the Guru

Chapter 5: Sustainability of the Postmortem Cult

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Fachbereich:	Öffentliches Recht
Genre:	Importe , Recht
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780199368624
ISBN-10:	0199368627
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Aymard, Orianne
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Orianne Aymard
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.06.2014
Gewicht:	0,619 kg