Veins of devotion blood donation and religious experience in north India
Veins of Devotion tells the story of recent remarkable collaborations between guru-led devotional movements and public health campaigns to encourage voluntary blood donation in northern India. Focusing primarily on Delhi, Jacob Copeman carefully situates blood donation practices within the context o...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J.
Rutgers University Press
©2009, 2009
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| Series: | Studies in medical anthropology
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Veins of Devotion tells the story of recent remarkable collaborations between guru-led devotional movements and public health campaigns to encourage voluntary blood donation in northern India. Focusing primarily on Delhi, Jacob Copeman carefully situates blood donation practices within the context of religious gift-giving, sacrifice, caste, kinship, and nationalism. The book analyzes the operations of several high-profile religious orders that organize large-scale public blood-giving events and argues that blood donation has become a site not only of frenetic competition between different devo |
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| Item Description: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 |
| Physical Description: | ix, 233 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781281958754 9786611958756 6611958754 9780813544489 1281958751 9780813544496 |