1st Edition

A Place for Our Gods The Construction of an Edinburgh Hindu Temple Community

By Malory Nye Copyright 1995
    260 Pages
    by Routledge

    260 Pages
    by Routledge

    Study of some 150 Hindu families (and about 1000 persons) living in Edinburgh, and particularly about the fact that two associations exist among them, one of which is based on activities at a temple.

    Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 An ‘Ethnic’ Community; Chapter 3 Hinduism in a Diaspora Context; Chapter 4 The Edinburgh Hindu Mandir And Sanskritic Kendra; Chapter 5 The Mandir Satsang; Chapter 6 Devotional Worship—Bhajans and Satsangs; Chapter 7 Festivals at the Mandir; Chapter 8 The Edinburgh Indian Association; Chapter 9 Religion, Society, and the Construction of Community;

    Biography

    Authored by Nye, Malory