Ritual as Ideology V.S. Ramanan a doctrine of faith the

a doctrine of faith the parallels Western doctrines of grace while reflecting a complex historical and doctrinal cross-current of faith

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Phil from the University of Oxford where she conducted research on Buddhist literature in Sanskrit under the guidance of Richard Gombrich

and as foretold in ancient scriptures

do reflect human being

Ritual as Ideology V.S. Ramanan a doctrine of faith theTeyyam, the spectacular ritual dance widely performed in north Kerala, has his distinct forms of visual and verbal expression. However, what was once expressed through the distinctly indigenous forms of this religious "other" no longer remains the same, as the specificities of meaning and messages as encoded in the whole structure of its ritual performance were leveled out and superceded by the ideological laundering of caste Hinduism. RITUAL AS