Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds Edward Lucie-Smith

Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds Edward Lucie-SmithBroadens the parameters of religious studies by accounting for material acts that help shape religious worlds. In Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes the agency of materiality the ability of materials to have an effect on both humans and deities beyond human intentions. Using materials from three regions where Flueckiger conducted extensive fieldwork, she begins with Indian understandings of the agency of

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