Veins of Devotion details recent collaborations between guru-led 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.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Generative Generosity
Chapter 3: The Reform of the Gift
Chapter 4: Devotion and Donation
Chapter 5: Blood Donation in the Zone of Religious Spectacles
Chapter 6: Utility Saints and Donor-Soldiers
Chapter 7: The Nehruvian Gift
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Glossary of Gurus and Organizations
References
Index
About the Author
 
 

Jacob Copeman is a research fellow at Jesus College at Cambridge University in England.