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Author:   Jacob Copeman ,  Aya Ikegame (The Open University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9780415510196

ISBN 10:   0415510198
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   18 June 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. The Multifarious Guru: An Introduction, 2. The Governing Guru: Hindu Mathas In Liberalising India, 3. The Slave Guru: Masters, Commanders, and Disciples In Early Modern South Asia, 4. The Political Guru: The Guru as Éminence Grise, 5. The Gay Guru: Fallibility, Unworldliness, and the Scene Of Instruction, 6. The Female Guru: Guru, Gender, and the Path Of Personal Experience, 7. The Dreamed Guru: The Entangled Lives of the Amil and the Anthropologist, 8. The Mimetic Guru: Tracing the Real in Sikh-Dera Sacha Sauda Relations, 9. The Mediated Guru: Simplicity, Instantaneity and Change in Middle-Class Religious Seeking, 10. The Cosmopolitan Guru: Spiritual Tourism and Ashrams In Rishikesh, 11. The Literary Guru: The Dual Emphasis on Bhakti and Vidhi In Western Indian Guru-Devotion, 12. Continuities as Gurus Change

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Jacob Copeman is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is author of Veins of Devotion: Blood Donation and Religious Experience in North India (2009) and editor of Blood Donation, Bioeconomy, Culture (2009). Aya Ikegame is Research Associate for the ERC-funded OECUMENE project 'Citizenship after Orientalism' at the Open University. She is the author of Princely India Re-imagined (Routledge, 2012) and has co-edited a special edition of Indian Economic and Social History Review (2009) on Indian Princely States.

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