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03653aam a2200445 i 4500 001 2B2ECFC286E611EB80D4A9DB35ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210317010020 008 190806t20202020nyuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019034474 020 $a 0190086726 020 $a 9780190086725 020 $a 0190086718 020 $a 9780190086718 035 $a (OCoLC)1129772031 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d YDXIT $d CDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YDX $d IL4J6 $d OCLCO $d OCL $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ii--- 050 00 $a BL1226.15.M38 $b H33 2020 082 00 $a 294.5/3509542 $2 23 100 1 $a Haberman, David L., $d 1952- $e author. 245 10 $a Loving stones : $b making the impossible possible in the worship of Mount Govardhan / $c David L. Haberman. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xiii, 310 pages : $b illustrations (color), map (black & white) ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "Loving Stones: Making the Impossible Possible in the Worship of Mount Govardhan is based on ethnographic and textual research with two major objectives. First, it is a study of the conceptions of and worshipful interactions with Mount Govardhan, a sacred mountain located in the Braj region of north-central India that has for centuries been considered an embodied form of Krishna. In this capacity it provides detailed information about the rich religious world associated with Mount Govardhan, much of which has not been available in previous scholarly literature. It is often said in that Mount Govardhan "makes the impossible possible" for devoted worshipers. This investigation includes examination of the perplexing paradox of an infinite god embodied in finite form, wherein each particular form is non-different from the unlimited. Second, it aims to address the challenge of interpreting something as radically different as the worship of a mountain and its stones for a culture in which this practice is quite alien. This challenge involves exploration of interpretive strategies that aspire to make the un-understandable understandable, and engages in theoretical considerations of incongruity, inconceivability, and like realms of the impossible. This aspect of the book includes critical consideration of the place and history of the pejorative concept of idolatry (and secondarily, its twin anthropomorphism) in the comparative study of religions. Accordingly, the second aim aspires to use the worship of Mount Govardhan as a site to explore ways in which scholars engaged in the difficult work of representing other cultures struggle to "make the impossible possible". ""-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index. 650 0 $a Hinduism $z Mathura (District) $z Mathura (District) $x Customs and practices. 650 0 $a Worship (Hinduism) 650 0 $a Anthropomorphism $x Hinduism. $x Hinduism. 650 7 $a Anthropomorphism $x Hinduism. $x Hinduism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst02020499 650 7 $a Hinduism $x Customs and practices. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00957122 650 7 $a Worship (Hinduism) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01181459 651 0 $a Mathura (India : District) $x Religious life and customs. 651 0 $a GiriraÌja (India) 651 7 $a India $z GiriraÌja. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01255582 651 7 $a India $z Mathura (District) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01331236 776 08 $i Online version: $a Haberman, David L., $t Loving stones $d New York : Oxford University Press, 2020. $z 9780190086732 $w (DLC) 2019034475 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317025816.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2B2ECFC286E611EB80D4A9DB35ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search