This book provides a holistic description of Hinduism, showing how different types of Hinduism form a 'total' or systematic cosmology and repeat crucial values through different symbols. Looking at Tamil religious practices, Isabelle Nabokov reveals that Tamil religion is primarily concerned with transformations of identity and subjectivity, both in this world and in the hereafter.
Religion Against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals
ISBN
0195113659Authors
Nabokov, IsabelleExtent
230Format
PaperbackYear
2000Publisher
Oxford University Press