Hinduism in Five Minutes - Steven W Ramey
49. What does Worship in Hinduism Look Like?
Hinduism in Five Minutes - Steven W Ramey
Katherine C. Zubko [+]
University of North Carolina Asheville
Katherine C. Zubko is Professor of Religious Studies and NEH Distinguished Professor of the Humanities (2018-23) at University of North Carolina Asheville. Her areas of expertise include aesthetics, ritual, performance and embodied religion in South Asia. Zubko is the author of Dancing Bodies of Devotion: Fluid Gestures in Bharata Natyam (2014), and co-editor with George Pati of Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions (Routledge 2019). Current research interests include exploring the role of embodied gestures of compassion and hospitality in performances on conflict transformation, and inclusive, interdisciplinary curriculum design as part of the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Description
After noting some key contextual differences across religious traditions connoted by the word 'worship', the frameworks of hospitality and reciprocity guide an overview of puja practices In Hindu traditions.