“Guruji Rocked . . . Duniya Shocked”

Copeman, Jacob; Duggal, Koonal

dc.contributor.author	Copeman, Jacob
dc.contributor.author	Duggal, Koonal
dc.date.accessioned	2023-10-17T16:53:40Z
dc.date.available	2023-10-17T16:53:40Z
dc.date.issued	2023-11-01
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/13051
dc.description	The experience of wonder—encompassing awe, bewilderment, curiosity, excitement, fear, dread, mystery, perplexity, reverence, surprise, and supplication—and the ineffable quality of that which is wondrous have been entwined in religion and human experience. Yet strangely, wonder in non-western societies, including South Asia, has rarely been acknowledged or understood. This groundbreaking volume brings together historians and ethnographers of South Asia, including leading and emerging scholars, to consider the place and meaning of wonder in such varied joyful, tense, and creative sites and moments as Sufi music performances in Gujarat, Tamil graveyard processions, trans women’s charitable practices, Kipling’s Orientalist tales, village Kuchipudi dance performances, and Rajasthani healing shrines. Offering a synthetic and scholarly reading of wonder that speaks to the political, aesthetic, and ethical worlds of South Asia, these essays redefine the nature and meaning of wonder and its worlds. Taken together, they provide an invaluable research tool for those in the fields of Asian religion, religion in context, and South Asian religions in particular.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	SUNY Press	en_US
dc.relation.url	https://sunypress.edu/Books/W/Wonder-in-South-Asia	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural	en_US
dc.subject	RELIGION / Hinduism / General	en_US
dc.subject	RELIGION / Comparative Religion	en_US
dc.subject	HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia	en_US
dc.title	“Guruji Rocked . . . Duniya Shocked”	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Wondertraps and the Camerawork Guruship of Dera Sacha Sauda Guru Dr. Saint Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan	en_US
dc.type	Book chapter	en_US
dc.description.version	AM	en_US
dc.description.institution	SUNY Press	en_US
dc.description.degreelevel	N/A	en_US