HASP Neuerscheinung - Here and Elsewhere: Transposed Deities, Substitute Pilgrimages and Geographic Imagination in North India
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01. Juli 2025
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This book offers a grounded study of crucial modes of sanctification and imagination of Hindu geographies: spatial transposition and substitute pilgrimage. It looks at the local representatives of the pan-Indian jyotirliṅgas in Varanasi (Banaras) and the urban pilgrimage connected to them by combining interpretative analysis of glorifications (māhātmyas) with in-depth ethnographic research. This enables Vera Lazzaretti closely to observe the strategies that a variety of social actors employ to knit together and reproduce connections between places of the here and the elsewhere, and to locate deities and themselves within multiple spatial dimensions, both lived and imagined.
The book is volume 17 of the series Ethno-Indology: Heidelberg Studies in South Asian Rituals, published by Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing.
The complete PDF of the book as well as the individual chapters are available for free download on our HASP platform. A hardcover edition has also been published and can be purchased from bookstores and online booksellers.
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