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By Corinne G. Dempsey

The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York is a profile of a flourishing Hindu temple within the city of Rush, ny. The temple, validated by means of a charismatic nonbrahman Sri Lankan Tamil referred to as Aiya, stands proud for its blend of orthodox ritual meticulousness and socioreligious iconoclasm. The energy with which devotees perform ritual themselves and their prepared entry to the deities contrasts sharply with ritual actions at so much North American Hindu temples, the place (following the standard Indian customized) ritual is played purely via clergymen and entry to the hugely sanctified divine photographs is heavily guarded. Drawing on numerous years of fieldwork, Dempsey weaves conventional South Asian stories, temple miracle debts, and devotional testimonials into an research of the unique dynamics of diaspora Hinduism. She explores the ways that the goddess, the guru, and temple individuals stay at cultural and non secular intersections, noting how differences among marvelous and mundane, conference and non-convention, and family and international are extra frequently intertwined and interdependent than in tidy competition. This full of life and available paintings is a different and critical contribution to diaspora Hindu Studies.

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