The Goddess lives in upstate New York : breaking convention and making home at a North American Hindu temple /
Corinne Dempsey profiles an unusual South Indian temple community in Rush, New York, outside Rochester. The temple, established by a charismatic non-Brahman Sri Lankan Tamil, stands out for its combination of orthodox ritual meticulousness and socioreligious iconoclasm. The vitality with which devot...
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Oxford ; New York :
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