Materiality, Devotion and Compromise: A Study of Goddess Films of South India

If religions can be considered as "devotional houses," then engaging with their materiality becomes an important way of understanding how people inhabit these houses and live their lives inside them. This is particularly pertinent to Hinduism since the different material cultures that the...

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Main Author: Chitra Sankaran 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2015]
In: Material religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 11, Issue: 4, Pages: 443-464
Further subjects:B Materiality
B Religion
B Goddess
B Hinduism
B Cinema
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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