Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Transcriptual Key -- Transliteration -- Epigraph -- Introduction Preparing the Materials: Prolegomenon for a Study of Prosaic Religion -- Part I: Tradition, Modernity, and the Challenge of Prosaic Hinduism -- 1 Framing the Study: Theorizing the Histories of Tradition in Bhaktapur, Nepal -- 2 Laying Down the Grid: Cosmology and the Place of Tradition in Bhaktapur, Nepal -- Part II: Prosaic Religion and the Construction of Lived Worlds -- 3 Sketching the Central Point: Cadastral God-Images and the Politics of Scriptural Mediation -- 4 Illustrating Samsara: Religious "Recipes" for Making a Prosaic Lived World -- 5 Performing Prosaic Tantra: Jhinjan Minjan Danigu's Animating Affect and Social Critique of Religious Experience -- 6 Bringing a Forged Mandala to Life: The Cow Procession and the Improvisation of Cadastral Generative Matrixes -- Conclusion Detailing the Material: A Strategy for Mediating Religion (Dharma) beside the Book -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Retheorizing Religion in Nepal is an engaging and thought-provoking study of Religion in South Asia, with important insights for the study of religion and culture more broadly conceived. Grieve uses ethnographic material as well as poststructuralist and postcolonialist approaches to critique and expand religious studies as a discipline.

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