Books in the Routledge South Asian Religion Series series

This book focuses on the ritualized forms of mobility that constitute phenomena of pilgrimage in South Asia and establishes a new analytical framework for the study of ritual journeys.

This book offers fresh theoretical, methodological and empirical analyses of the relation between religion and the city in the South Asian context.

This book presents a collection of original research about every day, innovative, interactive, and multiple religiosities among Sri Lankan Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and devotees of New Religious Movements in post-war Sri Lanka.

This book analyses engagements with non-Shia practices of Müarram celebrations in the past and present, in South Asia and within a larger diaspora. Bringing together a variety of regional perspectives and linguistic backgrounds, the chapters discuss the importance of Müarram celebrations in terms of their respective actors.

This book chronicles individual perspectives and specific iterations of Muslim community, practice, and experience in the Himalayan region to bring into scholarly conversation the presence of varying Muslim cultures in the Himalaya.

Religious imaginary is a way of conceiving and structuring the world within the conceptual and imaginative traditions of the religious. Using religious imaginary as a reference, this book analyses temporal ideologies and expressions of historicity in South Asia in the early modern, pre-colonial and early colonial period.

Presents an analysis of the concept of disease, possession and healing in the major South Asian religious traditions. This book discusses forms of divine possession or affliction and health issues at the crossroad of religious studies and medical anthropology.

Religious procession is a significant dimension of religion in South Asia. Processions are central in Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and Sikhism. This book presents research on the interpretations of the role of processions, the increase in processions and changes in the procession traditions. It is useful for students of Asian studies.

This book explores devotional Hinduism in a modern context of high consumerism and revolutionised communications.

Assesses debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. This title includes the chapters that present historical and empirical arguments as well as theoretical reflections on the topic, offering fresh insights into the nature of the construction of religion in India.

The Parsis are India's smallest minority community, yet they have exercised a huge influence on the country. As pioneers in education in 19th-century India, and as leading figures in banking and commerce, medicine, law and journalism, they were at the forefront of India's industrial revolution. This book explores various key aspects of the Parsis.

Bodh Gaya in the North Indian state of Bihar has long been recognized as the place where the Buddha achieved enlightenment. This book brings together the recent work of twelve scholars from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, art history, history, and religion ¿ to highlight their various findings and perspectives on different facets of Bodh Gayäs past and present.