Book Summary
This book explores devotional Hinduism in a modern context of high consumerism and revolutionised communications. It focuses on a fast-growing and high-profile contemporary Hindu guru faith originating in India and attracting a transnational following. The organisation is led by a vastly popular female guru, Mata Amritanandamayi, whom devotees worship as an avatar and a healer of the ills of the contemporary world. By drawing upon multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork among the mata's primarily urban, educated 'middle class' Indian devotees, the author provides crucial insights into new trends in popular Hinduism in a post-colonial and rapidly modernising Indian setting.
Book Details
| Book Name | Hindu Selves In A Modern World: Guru Faith In The Mata Amritanandamayi Mission |
| Author | Maya Warrier |
| Publisher | Routledge/curzon (Jan 2005) |
| ISBN | 9780415339889 |
| Pages | 185 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 336 |
