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Locked Up: An Enemies to Lovers Romance
Love, No Holds Barred When Janine Benson's life takes a harrowing turn with an unjust prison sentence, Luke Whitmore becomes her unwavering anchor, vowing to see justice served. And when the court finally overturns her conviction, Janine's heart soars with newfound hope. Yet, as she stands in a grocery store aisle, her joy shatters when a tabloid photograph exposes Luke in the arms of another woman. Crushed, Janine rebuilds her life as a taxi driver, using the wheel to navigate her pain. Eventually, she musters the strength to pen a letter of gratitude to Luke for his support during her darkest hours. To her astonishment, Luke reenters her life unannounced, rekindling the flames of their love. But Luke's formidable father deems Janine, a former convict, unsuitable for his son's privileged life and is determined to keep them apart. Can their love defy these social barriers, or will Luke sacrifice his heart to uphold his family's honor? This series is a must-read for fans of B.R. Maycock, Nicole Fox, Penny Reid. Strap in for Janine and Luke’s crazy adventures!
Leveled Up: An Enemies to Lovers Romance
Brace for impact Janine Benson and Luke Whitmore find themselves in a world of trouble, with danger lurking at every turn. Janine, thought she hit the jackpot with her bestselling novel, ready to cash in on her wild adventures. Little did she know, her tale attracted the attention of a sinister someone, shadowing her every move and turning her life into a heart-pounding game of cat and mouse. Meanwhile, Luke, decided to escape the chaos of city life by investing in a charming piece of heaven nestled in northern New York. A slice of paradise where he could finally settle down and start a family. But his power-hungry father has other plans, desperate to yank Luke back into the family hotel bus...
Ritual Innovation
Challenges prevailing conceptions of what religious ritual does and how it achieves its ends. Religious rituals are often seen as unchanging and ahistorical bearers of long-standing traditions. But as this book demonstrates, ritual is a lively platform for social change and innovation in the religions of South Asia. Drawing from Hindu and Jain examples in India, Nepal, and North America,the essays in this volume, written by renowned scholars of religion, explore how the intentional, conscious, and public invention or alteration of ritual can effect dramatic social transformation, whether in dethroning a Nepali king or sanctioning same-sex marriage. Ritual Innovation shows how the very idea o...
Mountain, Water, Rock, God
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Mountain, Water, Rock, God, Luke Whitmore situates the disastrous flooding that fell on the Hindu Himalayan shrine of Kedarnath in 2013 within a broader religious and ecological context. Whitmore explores the longer story of this powerful realm of the Hindu god Shiva through a holistic theoretical perspective that integrates phenomenological and systems-based approaches to the study of religion, pilgrimage, place, and ecology. He argues that close attention to places of religious significance offers a model for thinking through connections between ritual, narrative, climate destabilization, tourism, development, and disaster, and he shows how these critical components of human life in the twenty-first century intersect in the human experience of place.
Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth
Corinne Dempsey offers a study of Hindu and Christian, Indian and Euro/American earthbound religious expressions. She argues that official religious, political, and epistemological systems tend to deny sacred access and expression to the general populace.
The Festival of Pirs
This study is about a popular manifestation of Islamic devotion that embraces a pluralist setting, keeping itself in a dynamic dialogue with non-Muslim practices. With evidence from various public devotional narratives and ritual practices, the author argues that even universal understanding of living Islam remains incomplete if we do not consider this locally produced pluralised devotional setting that surrounds it. He seeks to address various aspects of local and localised Islam through an examination of Gugudu's local and popular transformation of normative Islam, giving particular focus to the various devotional rituals that blend Muslim and Hindu practices in the public event of Muharram.
Gods in the World
In the north Indian state of Uttarakhand, in the Central Himalayas, Hindu deities are ever present in the lives of devotees. Through ritual practices of placemaking, spirit mediums, oracles, priests, and other specialists bring these beings into embodied form, calling on them for healing and counsel. In exchange for alleviating human suffering, deities ask that a place be made for them—in homes, villages, and temples, and in bodies, lives, and communities. Gods in the World is a richly descriptive and evocative ethnography of Hindu ritual practices that shows how deities and other supernatural agents come to matter to ordinary people. Aftab S. Jassal traces how acts of placemaking, includi...
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