Notes from a Mandala
Subtitle: essays in the history of indian religions in honor of Wendy Doniger
By: edited by Laurie L. Patton and David L. Haberman.
Contributors: Doniger, Wendy.; Patton, Laurie L., 1961-; Haberman, David L., 1952-
Edition: [Rev. ed.].
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Neward, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780874130607
Subjects: Mythology, Hindu; India -- Religion; India -- Religion -- Study and teaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / David Dean Shulman; title: Introduction / Laurie L. Patton with David Haberman; title: Part I: Dialogue with the history of religions; title: The erotic ascetic and the religiohistorical sublime / Daniel Gold; title: Birth done better : conceiving the immortal fetus in India, China, and Renaissance Europe / Hugh B. Urban; title: Being Blake : antinomian thought, counterculture, and the art of the history of religions / Jeffrey R. Kripal; title: Part II: Translating across cultures; title: Textual intimacy : benefits and techniques of academic translation / David L. Haberman; title: Pages from the book of religions : comparing self and other in Mughal India / Aditya Behl; title: The politics of "other peoples' myths" / Gail Sutherland; title: Part III: New readings of classical Indian texts; title: The passions of late vedic texts : a short study of the emotion of fear in the Rgvidhana / Laurie L. Patton; title: The sacrifice of battle and the battle of yoga; or, how to word-away a discontented wife / Tamar Reich; title: At the Mandala's dark fringe : possession and protection in Tantric Bhairava cults / David Gordon White; title: Sitas dilemmas through the mail : Kumudini's mattering map of the Ramayana / Paula Richman; title: Inside/outside : where is Valmiki in the story he tells? / Arshia Sattar; title: Part IV: Ethnography and the history of religions; title: Seizing the zombie's tongue : ambivalent protectors in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal / Liz Wilson; title: Skirting the issue : gender and identity in Kutiyattam Sanskrit drama / Bruce M. Sullivan; title: On method and narrative; or, how a textualist gave birth to two ethnographers / Mathew N. Schmalz and Peter Gottschalk; title: Wendy's children : an afterword / Wendy Doniger.