Dimitrova / Oranskaia Divinizing in South Asian Traditions

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-12360-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 146 Seiten

This book analyses divinizing in South Asian traditions. It studies cultural questions related to the representations and mythologizing of the divine, and the human relations to the "divine other," as well as the process of interpreting the divine in religious texts and the embodying the "divine Other" in ritual practices. The focus is on studying the phenomenon of divinizing in its religious, cultural, and ideological implications.

The book comprises seven chapters that explore the question of divinizing from the 2nd century CE up to present-day in both North and South India. Written by experts in the field of South Asian religion the chapters discuss the issue both from the perspective of textual study and ideological analysis as well as from the perspective of anthropological analysis. Both insider- and outsider perspectives are represented. Applying theoretical models of religious and cultural studies to discuss texts written in South Asian languages and engage in critical dialogue with current scholarship in Asia and beyond, this book is an indispensable study of literary, religious and cultural production in South Asia. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of South Asian studies, South Asian religions, South Asian literatures as well as Asian Studies religious and cultural studies and comparative religion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dimitrova, Diana

Oranskaia, Tatiana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction, Diana Dimitrova

2. The Abducted Male: Sexual Conquest, Lineage and Divinity in the Narratives of Pradyumna and Aniruddha, Christopher Austin

3. From Playmate to Guru: Poetry, Theology, and Practice in Early Tamil Saiva Siddhanta, Anne E. Monius

4. The Recasting of Krishna’s Childhood Narrative in the Brahmavaivarta Purana to Include the Goddess Radha, André Couture

5. From Warrior Queen to Shiva’s Consort to Political Pawn: The Genesis and Development of a Local Goddess in Madurai, Gita V. Pai

6. A Bundela Prince Who Became a Deity: Strands of the Divinisation, Tatiana Oranskaia

7. Divinization „on demand“? Kanya puja in Himachal Pradesh, North India, Brigitte Luchesi

8. Divinizing in the Radhasoami Tradition, Diana Dimitrova

9. Movements, Miracles, and Mysticism: Apotheosis of Sree Narayana Guru of Early Twentieth Century Kerala, George Pati

Über Autor(innen)

Diana Dimitrova is Professor in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Montreal, Canada. She has edited the book South Asian Religion, Literature and Film, also published by Routledge (2014).

Tatiana Oranskaia Professor in the Department of Culture and History of India and Tibet and Director of the programme Modern South Asian Studies at the University of Hamburg, Germany.