Retheorizing Religion In Nepal (religion/culture/critique)

Retheorizing Religion In Nepal Is An Engaging And Thought-provoking Study Of Religion In South Asia, With Important Insights For The Study Of Religion And Culture More Broadly Conceived. Grieve Uses Ethnographic Material As Well As Poststructuralist And Postcolonialist Approaches To Critique And Expand Religious Studies As A Discipline. By Gregory Price Grieve. Front Matter....Pages i-xix Introduction Preparing the Materials: Prolegomenon for a Study of Prosaic Religion....Pages 1-24 Front Matter....Pages 25-25 Framing the Study: Theorizing the Histories of Tradition in Bhaktapur, Nepal....Pages 27-47 Laying Down the Grid: Cosmology and the Place of Tradition in Bhaktapur, Nepal....Pages 49-66 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 Sketching the Central Point: Cadastral God-Images and the Politics of Scriptural Mediation....Pages 69-86 Illustrating Samsara: Religious “Recipes” for Making a Prosaic Lived World....Pages 87-101 Performing Prosaic Tantra: Jhinjan Minjan Danigu’s Animating Affect and Social Critique of Religious Experience....Pages 103-114 Bringing a Forged Mandala to Life: The Cow Procession and the Improvisation of Cadastral Generative Matrixes....Pages 115-130 Conclusion Detailing the Material: A Strategy for Mediating Religion (Dharma) beside the Book....Pages 131-137 Back Matter....Pages 139-172 Retheorizing Religion in Nepal is an engaging and thought-provoking study of religion in South Asia, with important insights for the study of religion and culture more broadly conceived. Grieve uses ethnographic material as well as postsctructuralist and postcolonialist approaches to critique and expand religious studies as a discipline