Uprising of the fools : pilgrimage as moral protest in contemporary India /

Singh, Vikash, 1974-

Uprising of the fools : pilgrimage as moral protest in contemporary India / Vikash Singh. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - South Asia in motion .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : illegitimate religion -- Mastering uncertainty : performance and recognition in religion -- "Everything is a gift, Bhole" : custom and the ethics of care -- Ominous signs : of dread, desires, and determination -- Damning corpses : violence, religious or secular? -- Caste and the informal economy : subversive aesthetics of popular religion -- Wishful nightmares : triumphant neoliberalism and the resistances of religion -- War, nation, and the human as a thing.



9781503601741 9781503600379

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Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages--India--Haridwār.
Religion and social status--India.
Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspects--India.


Electronic Books.

BL1239 / .U675 2017