Buch, Englisch, 423 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm
Tradition, Adaptation, and Identity
Buch, Englisch, 423 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm
ISBN: 978-0-19-946374-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press
social process of creating a complex new religious identity in response to social, economic and political changes. The book contains current academic research from several disciplinesincluding history, theology, the arts, architecture, sociology, and migration studiesto analyze how the stories,
texts, and arts shape and reveal the thought, devotion, conduct, and socio-religious community that guide Swaminarayan Hindus through major transitions across time and space in several contexts. Swaminarayan is one of the rapidly expanding transnational Hindu movements with followers and institutions throughout India and abroad, especially in the United States, Britain, East Africa and Australasia.