Notes from a Maṇḍala: essays in the history of Indian religions in honor of Wendy Doniger
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Newark, NJ
University of Delaware Press
2009
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| In: | Year: 2009 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Edition: | [Rev. ed.] |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
India
/ Religion
B Indology |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Mythology, Hindu B India Religion B India Religion Study and teaching B Festschrift B Doniger, Wendy 1940- |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag) |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Foreword / David Dean 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 Rgvidhana / Laurie L. Patton -- The sacrifice of battle and the battle of yoga; or, how to word-away a discontented wife / Tamar Reich -- At the Mandala's dark fringe : possession and protection in Tantric Bhairava cults / David Gordon White -- Sitas dilemmas through the mail : Kumudini's mattering map of the Ramayana / Paula Richman -- Inside/outside : where is Valmiki 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 Kutiyattam 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 |
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| ISBN: | 0874130603 |