The living and the dead : social dimensions of death in South Asian religions /

"This collection examines the social dimensions of death in South Asian religions, exploring the ritualized exchanges between the living and the dead performed by Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and other religious groups. Using ethnographic and historical tools associated with the comparative and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Wilson, Liz
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.
Series:SUNY series in Hindu studies.
Subjects:
Death > Religious aspects.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > South Asia.
Mort > Aspect religieux.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > Asie méridionale.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
Death > Religious aspects
Funeral rites and ceremonies
South Asia > Religious life and customs.
Asie méridionale > Vie religieuse.
South Asia
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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 NÃÆth 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 LankaThe 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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