Retheorizing Religion in Nepal

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.

Gregory Price Grieve is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has published articles in Numen, Culture, Theory and Critique, Journal of Material Religion, and Studies in Nepalese History and Society.

List of Illustrations

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Series Editor's Preface

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Acknowledgments

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Transcriptual Key

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Transliteration

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Epigraph

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Introduction Preparing the Materials: Prolegomenon for a Study of Prosaic Religion

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Part I Tradition, Modernity, and the Challenge of Prosaic Hinduism

Framing the Study: Theorizing the Histories of Tradition in Bhaktapur, Nepal

27

(22)

Laying Down the Grid: Cosmology and the Place of Tradition in Bhaktapur, Nepal

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(20)

Part II Prosaic Religion and the Construction of Lived Worlds

Sketching the Central Point: Cadastral God-Images and the Politics of Scriptural Mediation

69

(18)

Illustrating Samsara: Religious ``Recipes'' for Making a Prosaic Lived World

87

(16)

Performing Prosaic Tantra: Jhinjan Minjan Danigu's Animating Affect and Social Critique of Religious Experience

103

(12)

Bringing a Forged Mandala to Life: The Cow Procession and the Improvisation of Cadastral Generative Matrixes

115

(16)

Conclusion Detailing the Material: A Strategy for Mediating Religion (Dharma) beside the Book

131

(8)

Notes

139

(10)

Bibliography

149

(20)

Index

169

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Retheorizing Religion in Nepal

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