Sacred Play: Ritual Levity and Humor in South Asian Religions - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438429800 ISBN 13: 9781438429809

Publisher: SUNY Press, 2011

Synopsis

Explores the significance of levity and humor in South Asian religious traditions.

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About the Author

Selva J. Raj (1952–2008) was Chair and Stanley S. Kresge Professor of Religious Studies at Albion College. His books include Dealing with Deities: The Ritual Vow in South Asia, also published by SUNY Press, and South Asian Christian Diaspora: Invisible Diaspora in Europe and North America. Corinne G. Dempsey is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. She is author of Kerala Christian Sainthood: Collisions of Culture and Worldview in South India and The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York: Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple. Together Raj and Dempsey coedited Popular Christianity in India: Riting between the Lines and Miracle as Modern Conundrum in South Asian Religious Traditions, both also published by SUNY Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438429800
• ISBN 13: 9781438429809
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238
• Editor: Raj Selva J, Dempsey Corinne G.