David N. Gellner, Professor of Social Anthropology, Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK,Sondra L. Hausner, Professor of Anthropology of Religion, Fellow of St Peter's College, University of Oxford, UK,Chiara Letizia, Professor of South Asian Religions, Department of Religious Studies, Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), Canada

David N. Gellner, Professor of Social Anthropology and Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, Sondra L. Hausner, Professor of Anthropology of Religion and Fellow of St. Peter's College, University of Oxford, and Chiara Letizia, Professor of South Asian Religions, University of Quebec in Montreal.

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Preface
1: Introduction: Religion and Identities in Post-Panchayat Nepal - David N. Gellner & Chiara Letizia
Part 1: Contrasting Urban and Rural Views: Secularism, Individualism, and Blood Sacrifice
2: Ideas of Secularism in Contemporary Nepal - Chiara Letizia
3: 'When Gods Return to their Homeland in the Himalayas': Maoism, Religion, and Change in the Model Village of Thabang, mid-Western Nepal - Ina Zharkevich
4: Neither Statues nor Ritual: An Analysis of New Religious Movements and Therapists in Nepal - Gerard Toffin
5: 'Living Goddesses Everywhere?' On the Possession of Women by the Goddess Bhagavati in Some Mountain Villages of Eastern Nepal - Pustak Ghimire
6: Blood Sacrifice in Nepal: Transformations and Criticism - Axel Michaels
7: Ancestor Worship and Sacrifice: Debates over Bahun-Chhetri Clan Rituals (kul puja) in Nepal - Krishna P. Adhikari & David N. Gellner
Part 2: Ethnic Traditions Confront a Changing State and Society
8: State Rituals in a Secular State? Replacing the Nepalese King in the Pacali Bhairava Sword Procession and other Rituals - Astrid Zotter
9: Tamang Lhochhar and the New Nepal - David Holmberg
10: Redefining Kiranti Religion in Contemporary Nepal - Martin Gaenszle
11: Confrontations between Maoists and Buddhists in Nepal: Historical Continuities, Flux, and Transformations in Collective Myth and Practice - Brigitte Steinmann
12: Tamang Christians and the Resituating of Religious Difference - Ben Campbell
Afterword: Nepalese Secularism in Comparative Perspective by Rajeev Bhargava
Glossary
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Index