ISBN:
9780874130607
,
0874130603
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
348 S.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
DDC:
294
Schlagwort(e):
Hindu mythology
;
India Religion
;
Study and teaching
;
India Religion
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Indien
;
Religion
Kurzfassung:
Foreword / David Shulman -- Introduction / Laurie L. Patton with David Haberman -- Part I: Dialogue with the history of religions -- The erotic ascetic and the religiohistorical sublime / Daniel Gold -- Birth done better : conceiving the immortal fetus in India, China, and Renaissance Europe / Hugh B. Urban -- Being Blake : antinomian thought, counterculture, and the art of the history of religions / Jeffrey R. Kripal -- Part II: Translating across cultures -- Textual intimacy : benefits and techniques of academic translation / David L. Haberman -- Pages from the book of religions : comparing self and other in Mughal India / Aditya Behl -- The politics of "other peoples' myths" / Gail Sutherland -- Part III: New readings of classical Indian texts -- The passions of late vedic texts : a short study of the emotion of fear in the Ṛgvidhāna / Laurie L. Patton -- The sacrifice of battle and the battle of yoga; or, how to word-away a discontented wife / Tamar Reich -- At the Maṇḍala's dark fringe : possession and protection in Tantric Bhairava cults / David Gordon White -- Sītā's dilemmas through the mail : Kumudini's mattering map of the Rāmāyaṇa / Paula Richman -- Inside/outside : where is Vālmīki in the story he tells? / Arshia Sattar -- Part IV: Ethnography and the history of religions -- Seizing the zombie's tongue : ambivalent protectors in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal / Liz Wilson -- Skirting the issue : gender and identity in Kūṭiyāṭṭam Sanskrit drama / Bruce M. Sullivan -- On method and narrative; or, how a textualist gave birth to two ethnographers / Mathew N. Schmalz and Peter Gottschalk -- Wendy's children : an afterword / Wendy Doniger
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-337) and index
,
Foreword
,
Introduction
,
Part I: Dialogue with the history of religions ; The erotic ascetic and the religiohistorical sublime
,
Birth done better : conceiving the immortal fetus in India, China, and Renaissance Europe
,
Being Blake : antinomian thought, counterculture, and the art of the history of religions
,
Part II: Translating across cultures ; Textual intimacy : benefits and techniques of academic translation
,
Pages from the book of religions : comparing self and other in Mughal India
,
The politics of "other peoples' myths"
,
Part III: New readings of classical Indian texts ; The passions of late vedic texts : a short study of the emotion of fear in the Ṛgvidhāna
,
The sacrifice of battle and the battle of yoga; or, how to word-away a discontented wife
,
At the Maṇḍala's dark fringe : possession and protection in Tantric Bhairava cults
,
Sītā's dilemmas through the mail : Kumudini's mattering map of the Rāmāyaṇa
,
Inside/outside : where is Vālmīki in the story he tells?
,
Part IV: Ethnography and the history of religions ; Seizing the zombie's tongue : ambivalent protectors in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal
,
Skirting the issue : gender and identity in Kūṭiyāṭṭam Sanskrit drama
,
On method and narrative; or, how a textualist gave birth to two ethnographers
,
Wendy's children : an afterword
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