TY  - BOOK
AU  - Copeman, Jacob
TI  - Veins of devotion: blood donation and religious experience in north India
SN  - 9788189643225
U1  - 615.3909546 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Blood - Collection and preservation - India - Delhi
KW  - Blood - Religious aspects
KW  - Blood - Social aspects - India - Delhi
KW  - Blood donors - India - Delhi
KW  - Kinship - India - Delhi
N2  - Veins of Devotion tells the story of recent remarkable collaborations between guru-led devotional movements and public health campaigns to encourage voluntary blood donation in northern India. Focusing primarily on Delhi, Jacob Cope man carefully situates blood donation practices within the context of religious gift-giving, sacrifice, caste, kinship, and nationalism. 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.
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