Undervisningsplan

Reading: Michael Witzel „Vedas and Upaniṣads“; Axel Michaels, Hinduism: Past and Present, chapter 2: Historical Foundations 

Reading: The World of Buddhism: Introduction by Richard Gombrich, The Buddha, his Teaching, and his Sangha by Etienne Lamotte; K. W. Folkert: Introduction to Jainism; 

Reading: Jamal Malik, “Canons, Charismas and Identities in Modern Islam: Richard M. Eaton: Sufi Folk Literature and the Expansion of Indian Islam Richard M. Eaton: Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States 

Reading: Roma Chatterji: „The Category of Folk.“ Günther-Dietz Sontheimer: „Rudra and Khandoba: Continuity in Folk Religion.“ William Sax: „The Hall of Mirrors: Orientalism, Anthropology, and the „Other“.“ 

Reading: The Camphor Flame, chapter 7: Devotionalist Movements John Stratton Hawley: “Author and Authority.”  

Reading: John Brockington: “The Sanskrit Epics”, Susan S. Wadley: “Popular culture and the North Indian oral Epic Dhola.” 

Brückner, Heidrun “Fluid Canons and Shared Charisma: On Success and Failure of Ritual Performance in a South Indian Oral Tradition”. Kathleen M. Erndl: Possession by Durga: The Mother Who Possesses, Erika Bourguignon: „Suffering and Healing, Subordination and Power: Women and Possession Trance.”  

Reading: Mark Elmore: “Theologies of visibility and evidentiary authority in eastern Himachal Pradesh” Hugh B. Urban, Matrix of Power: Tantra, Kingship, and Sacrifice in the Worship of Mother Goddess Kamakhya 

Reading: Seligman et. al., Ritual and its consequences. An Essay on the limits of sincerity. OUP 2008; chapter 1: Ritual and the subjunctive. Axel Michaels, Hindusim, “Religiosity”, pp. 226-252 

The Camphor Flame: Chapter 9: Pilgrimage Victor Turner, “The Center Out There: Pilgrims’ Goal”  

Reading: John MacAlloon, Rite, Drama, Festival, Spectacle; Introduction; The Camphor Flame, chapter 6: rituals of the village 

The Camphor Flame: Chapter 4: Sacrifice 

Michaels: chapter(s) on saṃskāras; The camphor flame: chapter 3: worship