Description: Explores how objects shape the worlds of religious participants across a range of South Asian traditions.
Brief description: Tracy Pintchman is Professor of Hindu Studies at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition and the editor of Seeking Mahadevi: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess, both also published by SUNY Press.
Review Quotes:
"Sacred Matters is a short collection of disparate papers, but with the help of a pithy introduction and the concluding essay they cohere remarkably well ... Sacred Matters invites perusal, and adds materially to the field." -- Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies