Religion, Secularism, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal

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