The Experience of Hinduism

<p>This book presents multi-faceted images of religious experience in the Marathi-speaking region of India. In addition to Irawati Karve's classic On the Road about her pilgrimage to Pandharpur there are three essays by Karve that appear in English for the first time. Here is possession by gods and ghosts an actual sermon by an inspired saint in the traditional bhajan style and an autobiographical account of the religious nationalism of the militant R.S.S. These are engaging true-to-life accounts of the lives of individual Hindus.</p><p>Essays and imaginative literature a poem and a short story interplay the ideas concepts personalities practices rituals and deities of Hinduism in a surprisingly coherent manner.</p>