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Full Title

Hindu Selves in a Modern World Guru Faith in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission 1st Edition

Author(s)

Maya Warrier

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781134298938, 9780415339889, 9780203462065, 9786610096978, 9781280096976, 9781134298945, 9781134298891

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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.