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The living and the dead [electronic resource] : social dimensions of death in South Asian religions / edited by Liz Wilson.
ISBN:
9780791487013
9780791456781
Title:
The living and the dead [electronic resource] : social dimensions of death in South Asian religions / edited by Liz Wilson.
Author:
Wilson, Liz.
Publication Information:
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 212 pages :) : illustrations.
Series:
SUNY series in Hindu studies
Contents:
""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Note on Transliteration and Transcription""; ""Introduction: Passing On: The Social Life of Death in South Asian Religions""; ""Ashes to Nectar: Death and Regeneration among the Rasa Siddhas and NÃ¥th Siddhas*""; ""Human Torches of Enlightenment: Autocremation and Spontaneous Combustion as Marks of Sanctity in South Asian Buddhism""; ""When a Wife Dies First: The""; ""and a Female Brahman Ritualist in Coastal Andhra""; ""Return to Tears: Musical Mourning, Emotion, and Religious Reform in Two South Asian Minority Communities""
""Deanimating and Reanimating the Dead in Rural Sri Lanka""""The Suppression of Nuns and the Ritual Murder of Their Special Dead in Two Buddhist Monastic Texts*""; ""A Funeral to Part with the Living: ATamil Countersorcery Ritual1""; ""Dead Healers and Living Identities: Narratives of a Hindu Ghost and a Muslim Sufi in a Shared Village*""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
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Publication Date:
2003
Publication Information:
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.