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Availability:In StockContributor:Sravana Borkataky-Varma (Editor), Aaron Michael Ullrey (Editor)Publish date:2023-05-30Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9781032190419ISBN-10:1032190418UPC:9781032190419Book Category:ReligionSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.76 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCKSNQPZWV

Living Folk Religions presents cutting-edge contributions from a range of disciplines to examine religious folkways across cultures. This collection embraces the non-elite and non-sanctioned, the oral, fluid, accessible, evolving religions of people (volk) on the ground. Split into five sections, this book covers:

  • What Is Folk Religion?
  • Spirit Beings and Deities
  • Performance and Ritual Praxis
  • Possession and Exorcism
  • Health, Healing, and Lifestyle

Topics include demons and ambivalent gods, tree and nature spirits, revolutionary renunciates, oral lore, possession and exorcism, divination, midwestern American spiritualism, festivals, queer sexuality among ritual specialists, the dead returned, vernacular religions, diaspora adaptations, esoteric influences underlying public cultures, unidentified flying objects (UFOs), music and sound experiences, death rituals, and body and wellness cultures.

Living Folk Religions is a must-read for those studying Comparative Religions, World Religions, and Religious Studies, and it will also interest specialists and general readers, particularly enthusiastic readers of Anthropology, Folklore and Folk Studies, Global Studies, and Sociology.

Language:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9781032190419ISBN-10:1032190418UPC:9781032190419Book Category:ReligionSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.76 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCKSNQPZWV

Sravana Borkataky-Varma is a scholar of Indian religions focusing on esoteric rituals and gender, particularly in Hindu Goddess Tantra. She is the Instructional Assistant Professor at the University of Houston. At present, she is a Center for the Study of World Religions fellow at Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University.

Aaron Michael Ullrey is a Historian of Religions focusing on magic and the religions of South Asia, especially tantras associated with Śaivism and Jainism. He teaches Religious Studies at the University of Houston and is a Sanskrit language instructor at Naropa University.


Publisher: Routledge

Contributor(s)

Sravana Borkataky-Varma (Editor), Aaron Michael Ullrey (Editor)

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