LEADER 02795nam 2200541Ia 450 001 9910777656903321 005 20230829010947.0 010 $a0-7914-8200-6 010 $a1-4237-8007-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000463137 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000135443 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11143494 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000135443 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10058888 035 $a(PQKB)11244139 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407820 035 $a(OCoLC)70182922 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6389 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407820 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579243 035 $a(OCoLC)923409145 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000463137 100 $a20050520d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aDealing with deities$b[electronic resource] $ethe ritual vow in South Asia /$fedited by Selva J. Raj and William P. Harman 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2006 215 $axix, 287 p. $cill., maps 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7914-6707-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: the deal with deities--ways vows work in South Asia / Selva J. Raj and William P. Harman -- "The vow": a short story / Shankarrao Kharat -- Negotiating relationships with the goddess / William P. Harman -- Shared vows, shared space, and shared deities: vow rituals among Tamil Catholics in South India / Selva J. Raj -- Religious vows at the Shrine of Shahul Hamid / Vasudha Narayanan -- In the company of pirs: making vows, receiving favors at Bangladeshi Sufi shrines / Sufia Uddin -- Bara: Buddhist vows at Kataragama / Sunil Goonasekera -- Performing vows in diasporic contexts: Tamil Hindus, temples, and goddesses in Germany / Martin Baumann -- Singing a vow: devoting oneself to Shiva through song / Karen Pechilis -- Monastic vows and the Ramananda Sampraday / Ramdas Lamb -- Negotiating karma, merit, and liberation: vow-taking in the Jain tradition / M. Whitney Kelting -- Vows in the Sikh tradition / Louis E. Fenech and Pashaura Singh -- When vows fail to deliver what they promise: the case of Shyamavati / Tracy Pintchman -- Two critiques of women's vows / Jack E. Llewellyn -- Toward a typology of South Asian lay vows / Selva J. Raj and William P. Harman. 606 $aVows 607 $aSouth Asia$xReligious life and customs 615 0$aVows. 676 $a204/.46 701 $aRaj$b Selva J$01510635 701 $aHarman$b William P.$f1946-$0439016 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777656903321 996 $aDealing with deities$93778164 997 $aUNINA