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Playing Host to Deity: Festival Religion in the South Indian Tradition Younger, Paul (Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of Religious Studies, McMaster University, Canada)
Playing Host to Deity: Festival Religion in the South Indian Tradition
Younger, Paul (Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of Religious Studies, McMaster University, Canada)
The annual festivals that are central to the south Indian religious tradition are among the largest religious gatherings found anywhere in the world. In this book, Paul Younger offers a fieldwork-based study of 14 different religious festivals, shedding light on not only their religious, but also their social and political meanings.
198 pages, 24 halftones
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 20, 2001 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195140446 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 200 |
| Dimensions | 236 × 157 × 25 mm · 445 g |
| Language | English |