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 postsctructuralist and postcolonialist approaches to critique and expand religious studies as a discipline. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 List of Illustrations......Page 10 Series Editor’s Preface......Page 12 Acknowledgments......Page 14 Transcriptual Key......Page 16 Transliteration......Page 18 Epigraph......Page 20 Introduction Preparing the Materials: Prolegomenon for a Study of Prosaic Religion......Page 22 Part I: Tradition, Modernity, and the Challenge of Prosaic Hinduism......Page 46 1 Framing the Study: Theorizing the Histories of Tradition in Bhaktapur, Nepal......Page 48 2 Laying Down the Grid: Cosmology and the Place of Tradition in Bhaktapur, Nepal......Page 70 Part II: Prosaic Religion and the Construction of Lived Worlds......Page 88 3 Sketching the Central Point: Cadastral God-Images and the Politics of Scriptural Mediation......Page 90 4 Illustrating Samsara: Religious "Recipes" for Making a Prosaic Lived World......Page 108 5 Performing Prosaic Tantra: Jhinjan Minjan Danigu's Animating Affect and Social Critique of Religious Experience......Page 124 6 Bringing a Forged Mandala to Life: The Cow Procession and the Improvisation of Cadastral Generative Matrixes......Page 136 Conclusion Detailing the Material: A Strategy for Mediating Religion Dharma beside the Book......Page 152 Notes......Page 160 Bibliography......Page 170 C......Page 190 L......Page 191 P......Page 192 Y......Page 193