Anway Mukhopadhyay

The Goddess in Hindu-Tantric Traditions (eBook, PDF)

Devi as Corpse

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the figurations of the Goddess as corpse in several Hindu puranic and Shakta-tantric texts, popular practices, folk belief systems, legends and various other cultural phenomena based on this motif.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351063531
• Artikelnr.: 56886152

Autorenporträt

Anway Mukhopadhyay is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Culture Studies at the University of Burdwan, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Human Death, the Divine Corpse 2. Reinterpreting the
Myth of Sati: The Devoted Husband and the Corpse of His Wife 3.
Dismemberment as Pluralization: The Scattering of Sati's Body Parts and the
Self-Pluralization of Shiva 4. The Shakti Pithas: The Active Corpse, the
Immanent Shakti and the Sacred Geography of Shaktism 5. Shava Sadhana: Who
Is the Corpse? Shiva or Shakti? 6. Placing the Devi's Corpse on the Shore
of a Thousand Streams: A Multicultural and Comparativist Reading of the
Devi as Corpse 7. Shava-rupa and Vishva-rupa: The Corpse Form and the
Cosmic Form of the Devi Appendix I: A Brief Outline of the Narrative of
Sati in the Mahabhagavata Upapurana Appendix II: The Narrative of Sati in
the Brihaddharmapurana: A Summary Appendix III: An Outline of the Narrative
of Sati in Bharatchandra's Annadamangal Kavya