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Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre (LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS MONOGRAPHS ON SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY) by Peter van der Veer is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre (LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS MONOGRAPHS ON SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY) about?
This book is the result of the long interest in Hindu pilgrimage which was encouraged during his study of Sanskrit and Hinduism It provided a detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values can reflect political and economic processes. This is Volume 59 of the London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology.
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- Author
- Peter van der Veer
- Publisher
- Athlone Press; Bloomsbury Academic
- Published
- 1988
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780367716882
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Religion, Poetry, Anthropology
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