By Orianne Aymard

Ma Anandamayi is usually considered as crucial Hindu lady saint of the 20th century. honored alternately as a guru and as an incarnation of God on the earth, Ma had thousands of devotees. in the course of the production of a non secular stream and an unlimited community of ashrams-unprecedented for a woman-Ma offered herself as an expert determine in a society the place girl experts weren't frequently recognized.

Because of her frequent impression, Ma is without doubt one of the infrequent Hindu saints whose cult has outlived her. this present day, her tomb is a spot of veneration should you knew her in addition to new generations of her fans. via acting vast fieldwork between Ma's present devotees, Orianne Aymard examines what occurs to a cult after the dying of its chief. Does it decline, stagnate, or develop? Or is it relatively reworked into anything else fullyyt? Aymard's paintings sheds new mild not just on Hindu sainthood-and rather lady Hindu sainthood-but at the nature of charismatic spiritual management and devotion.

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