Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Dimitrova, Diana

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000257892
• Artikelnr.: 60533656

Autorenporträt

Diana Dimitrova is Professor of Hinduism and South Asian Traditions at the University of Montreal, Canada. She is the author of Hinduism and Hindi Theatre; Gender, Religion and Modern Hindi Drama and Western Tradition and Naturalistic Hindi Theatre. She is also the editor of Religion, Literature and Film in South Asia and Imagining Indianness: Cultural Identity and Literature (with Thomas de Bruijn). Her publications include the edited volumes, The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film: Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness and Divinizing in South Asian Traditions (with Tatiana Oranskaia), also published by Routledge. She is the series editor of the Routledge Series on South Asian Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions 1. The vä
a as Body: Seizure, Illness and Restriction of the Body in the Harivä
a 2. Tinged with Pain and Promise: Images of Bodies in the Poetry of Appar 3. Allegorical representations of the body in the Vijñ
nag
ta by Ke
avd
s 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 (säsk
ra) within thehijra community 7. When Humans Pose as Hindu Gods