The living and the dead : social dimensions of death in South Asian religions /
Wilson, Liz,1961-
Albany : State University of New York Press,
c2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ashes to nectar: death and regeneration among the Rasa Siddhas and Nāth Siddhas -- Human torches of enlightenment: autocremation and spontaneous combustion as marks of sanctity in South Asian Buddhism -- When a wife dies first: the Mūsivāyanam 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: a Tamil countersorcery ritual -- Dead healers and living identities: narratives of a Hindu ghost and a Muslim Sufi in a shared village.
Death
Funeral rites and ceremonies