Religions of the East
By: edited by Stephen Hunt
Series: The library of essays on sexuality and religion; Library of essays on sexuality and religion
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 513
ISBN-13: 9780754629221
Subjects: Religious life and customs; Religious aspects; Sex
Description: Collection of previously published essays.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Concerning Kamasutras :; title: challenging narratives of history and sexuality  -- Jyoti Puri; title: The cult of the Earth Goddess among the Magar of Nepal  -- Marie Lecomte-Tilouine; title: Women in Honglou meng :; title: prescriptions of purity in the femininity of Qing Dynasty China  -- Louise Edwards; title: Contemporary Theravāda and Zen Buddhist attitudes to human sexuality :; title: an exercise in comparative ethics  -- Michel Clasquin-Johnson; title: Sexuality :; title: the Chinese and the Judeo-Christian traditions in Hong Kong  -- Adolf K.T. Tsang; title: Singing the glory of asceticism :; title: devotion of asceticism in Jainism  -- John E. Cort; title: Asceticism and sexuality in the mythology of Śiva, part II  -- Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty; title: Temple girls of medieval Karnataka  -- Aloka Parasher and Usha Naik; title: Kumari or virgin worship in Kathmandu Valley  -- M.R. Allen; title: Social consequences of marrying Viṣṇu Nārāyaṇa :; title: primary marriage among the Newars of Kathmandu Valley  -- Anne Vergati; title: Abductions and the constellation of a Hindu communal bloc in Bengal of the 1920s  -- P.K. Dutta; title: Women, sexuality and enlightenment :; title: Kankyo no tomo  -- Rajyashree Pandey; title: Re-imagining the divine in Sikhism  -- Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh; title: The power to pollute and the power to preserve :; title: perceptions of female power in a Hindu village  -- Catherine Thompson; title: Lustful women, elusive lovers :; title: identifying males as objects of female desire  -- Prem Chowdhry; title: Not this, not that :; title: the Hijras of India and the cultural politics of sexuality  -- Vinay Lal; title: "Like a city ablaze" :; title: the third sex and the creation of sexuality in Jain religious literature  -- Leonard Zwilling and Michael J. Sweet; title: A comparative analysis of Hijras and drag queens :; title: the subversive possiblities and limits of parading effeminacy and negotiating masculinity  -- Sandeep Bakshi; title: Transsexualism, gender, and anxiety in traditional India  -- Robert P. Goldman; title: Ambiguous sexuality :; title: imagery and interpretation in Tantric Buddhism -- Roger R. Jackson.