A Sacred Thread: Modern Transmission of Hindu Traditions in India and Abroad

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Raymond Brady Williams
Columbia University Press, 1996 - Religion - 337 pages
Handing down and reaching across: stability and movement in Indian religious traditions / John B. Carman -- Winning souls for Siva: Arumuga Navalar's transmission of the Saiva religion / Dennis Hudson -- The Sankaracarya of Kanci and the Kamaksi Temple as ritual center / William Cenkner -- The coronation of a guru: charisma, politics, and philosophy in contemporary India / Glenn Yocum -- The divine-human figure in the transmission of religious tradition / Brian Hutchinson -- Rituals and reinterpretation: South Indians in Southeast Asia / Fred W. Clothey -- Creating South Indian Hindu experience in the United States / Vasudha Narayanan -- Transmission and transformation of rituals / K.K.A. Venkatachari -- Swaminarayan temples and rituals: views of two sadhus / Vivekjivanadas Swami and Brahmviharidas Swami -- Transmission of a Swaminarayan Hindu scripture in the British East Midlands / Douglas Brear -- Sacred threads of several textures: strategies of adaptation in the United States / Raymond Brady Williams -- Academic study of religion and Asian Indian-American college students / John Y. Fenton -- A new international religion: Radhasoami / Mark Juergensmeyer.
 

Contents

A Sacred Thread
3
The Sankaracarya of Kanci and the Kamaksi Temple as Ritual
52
The DivineHuman Figure in the Transmission of Religious
92
South Indians in Southeast Asia
127
Creating South Indian Hindu Experience in the United States
147
Transmission and Transformation of Rituals
177
Transmission of a Swaminarayan Hindu Scripture in the British
209
Academic Study of Religion and Asian IndianAmerican
258
Glossary
300
Notes
307
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