Sacred groves and local gods religion and environmentalism in South India Eliza F. Kent

By: Kent, Eliza F, 1966Publication details: New York Oxford University Press 2013Description: ix, 236 p. ill., maps 24 cmISBN: 978-0-19-989548-9Subject(s): Sacred groves -- India -- Tamil Nadu | Forest conservation -- Social aspects -- India -- Tamil Nadu | Tamil Nadu (India) -- Religious life and customs
Contents:
Introduction: sacred groves and local gods: religious environmentalism in South India -- Fierce gods and dense forest: sacred groves near Madurai -- A road runs through it: changing meanings in Malaiyali sacred groves in Tiruvannamalai district -- Mixing botany and belief: guardian deities and their forests in the Pondicherry region -- Soteriology and stake-holders: the greening of the Auroville plateau 1973-2007 -- Sacrifice and sacrality: sacred grove restoration projects near Chennai
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-221) and index

880-11 Introduction: sacred groves and local gods: religious environmentalism in South India -- Fierce gods and dense forest: sacred groves near Madurai -- A road runs through it: changing meanings in Malaiyali sacred groves in Tiruvannamalai district -- Mixing botany and belief: guardian deities and their forests in the Pondicherry region -- Soteriology and stake-holders: the greening of the Auroville plateau 1973-2007 -- Sacrifice and sacrality: sacred grove restoration projects near Chennai

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