Hindu Selves in a Modern World: Guru Faith in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission

By Maya Warrier

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041533988X
• ISBN13: 9780415339889
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 8.8"