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Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions
ISBN-13:
9781000257892
Veröffentl:
2020
Seiten:
152
Autor:
Diana Dimitrova
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
0 - No protection
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book analyses cultural questions related to representations of the body in South Asian traditions, human perceptions and attitudes toward the body in religious and cultural contexts, as well as the processes of interpreting notions of the body in religious and literary texts.
Introduction: Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions 1. The väsa as Body: Seizure, Illness and Restriction of the Body in the Hariväsa 2. Tinged with Pain and Promise: Images of Bodies in the Poetry of Appar 3. Allegorical representations of the body in the Vijñanagita by Kesavdas 4. Devotional Bodies and Embodied Devotion: Yoga, Bhakti and Pilgrimage in the Radhasoami Tradition 5. Bodies in Cracking India 6. Cultivating a female body: Appropriation of female rituality (säskara) within thehijra community 7. When Humans Pose as Hindu Gods
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