Veins of Devotion details recent collaborations between guruled devotional movements and public health campaigns to encourage voluntary blood donation in northern India. 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 devotional movements, but also of intense spiritual creativity.
- ISBN10 081354596X
- ISBN13 9780813545967
- Publish Date 18 November 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Rutgers University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 253
- Language English