TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gellner, David N
AU  - Hausner,Sondra L
AU  - Letizia,Chiara
TI  - Religion, Secularism, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal
SN  - 9780199467723
U1  - SS40 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Religion and Identities in Post-panchayat Nepal ..........1  1. Contrasting urban and Rural Views : Secularism Individualism, and Blood Sacrifice   Ideas of Secularism in Contemparary Nepal ..........35  When gods Return to their Homeland in the Himalays: Maoism, Religion and change in the moel Village of Thabang, Mid-western Nepal ..........77  Neither statues nor Ritual : An analysis of New Religious movements and therapists in Nepal .......115  Living goddesses everywhere ? On the possession of Women by the Goddess bhagavati in some Mountain Villages of Eastern Nepal .......150  Blood Sacrifice in Nepal : Transformations and Criticism ........192  Ancestor Worship and sacrifice : Debates over Bahun-chhetri clan rituals in Nepal .........226  2. EThnic Traditions Confront a Changing state and Society   State rituals in a Secular state ? Replacing the nepalese King in the pacali bhairava Sword procession and Other rituals ............265  Tamang lhochhar and the new nepal ........302  Redefining kiranti religion in Contemporary nepal ..........326  Confrontations between maoist and buddhists in Nepal : Historical Continuties, Flux, and transformations in Collective myth and practice ................353  Tamang christians and the Resituating of Religious difference ........403
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