Sweetening and Intensification

Introduction: Sweetening and Intensification Processes in Hindu Traditions
Xenia Zeiler and Amy L. Allocco

Part 1: Temples, Localities, and Deities

1. A Divine Dust-Up: Diverging Trajectories of Local Gods in Garhwal
Brian K. Pennington

2. Your Friendly, Neighborhood Bhairava: Understanding the Role of a Terrifying God in the Form of an Adorable Little Boy (Batuk)
Seth Ligo

3. This Is a Place Where Shakti Dances: Intensifying the Goddess's Power in Michigan
Tracy Pintchman

Part 2: Ritual and Possession Performances

4. Insistence, Persistence, and Resistance in Tamil Hindu Rituals to Call the Dead
Amy L. Allocco

5. Developing Danda: Aspirations and Transformations of Divine Presence in Uttarakhand
Aftab S. Jassal

6. Feral Gods: Inklings of a Mercurial Sacrality in Village Tamil Nadu
Indira Arumugam

Part 3: Pilgrimage and Festival Practices

7. The Changing Flavors of Gogaji Worship
Carter Hawthorne Higgins

8. Sleep Sweetly, Fierce Goddess: Rituals of Intensification and Sweetening of the Goddess Chamundeshwari of Mysore in Navaratri/Dasara and Her Mahotsava
Caleb Simmons

9. The Sweetening of Bhairav as a Merchants' Miracle Deity
R. Jeremy Saul

Part 4: Narrative and Visual Spaces

10. Envisioning Kameshvari and the Mahavidyas in Women's Nam of the Kamakhya Temple and Pilgrimage Site
Patricia Dold

11. Sanskritizing and Saffronizing the Rabies Goddess: Sweetening and Intensification in the Folklore of Hadkai Mata
Darry Dinnell

12. Sensational Poetics: The Modern Visual Contextualities of Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural
Amy-Ruth Holt

13. Kali in a Time of Hurt Sentiments
Rachel Fell McDermott

List of Contributors
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• Hindu vida e prática
• Estudos étnicos
• Antropologia social e cultural
• Filosofia oriental e indiana

Hindu religious practices, contemporary Hindu worship, Hindu temple activities, material culture in South Asia