The living and the dead : social dimensions of death in South Asian religions / edited by Liz Wilson.
Contributor(s): Wilson, Liz
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TextSeries: SUNY series in Hindu studies: Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 2003Description: xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0791456781 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0791456773 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Death -- Religious aspects | Funeral rites and ceremonies -- South Asia | South Asia -- Religious life and customsDDC classification: 291.2/3 LOC classification: BL504 | .L58 2003Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Passing on: the social life of death in South Asian religions / Liz Wilson -- Ashes to nectar: death and regeneration among the Rasa Siddhas and Nāth Siddhas / David Gordon White -- Human torches of enlightenment: autocremation and spontaneous combustion as marks of sanctity in South Asian Buddhism / Liz Wilson -- When a wife dies first: the Mūsivāyanam and a female Brahman ritualist in Coasta Andhra / David M. Knipe -- Return to tears: musical mourning, emotion, and religious reform in two South Asian minority communities / Richard K. Wolf -- Deanimating and reanimating the dead in rural Sri Lanka / Jonathan S. Walters -- The suppression of nuns and the ritual murder of their special dead in two Buddhist monastic texts / Gregory Schopen -- A funeral to part with the living: a Tamil countersorcery ritual / Isabelle Nabokov -- Dead healers and living identities: narratives of a Hindu ghost and a Muslim Sufi in a shared village / Peter Gottschalk.