Guest Editor's Introduction: Forests of Belonging: The Contested Meaning of Trees and Forests in Indian Hinduism

This special issue takes a new approach to the study of religion and nature in Indian Hinduism by drawing on recent ethnography to examine the meanings that priests, pilgrims and ordinary devotees attribute to forests and trees today. Attentive to the rapidly changing social and ecological environme...

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Main Author: Kent, Eliza F. 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. 2010
In: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Year: 2010, Volume: 4, Issue: 2, Pages: 129-138
Further subjects:B Trees
B Environmental History
B Animism
B adivasi
B Hinduism
B forests
B India
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