A Place for Our Gods: The Construction of an Edinburgh Hindu Temple Community / Edition 1

by Malory Nye

Overview

Study of some 150 Hindu families (and about 1000 persons) living in Edinburgh, and particularly about the fact that two associations exist among them, one of which is based on activities at a temple.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780700703562
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/16/1995
Series:	SOAS London Studies on South Asia , #8
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 An ‘Ethnic’ Community; Chapter 3 Hinduism in a Diaspora Context; Chapter 4 The Edinburgh Hindu Mandir And Sanskritic Kendra; Chapter 5 The Mandir Satsang; Chapter 6 Devotional Worship—Bhajans and Satsangs; Chapter 7 Festivals at the Mandir; Chapter 8 The Edinburgh Indian Association; Chapter 9 Religion, Society, and the Construction of Community;