The goddess in Hindu-Tantric traditions Devi as corpse
The human death, the divine corpse -- Reinterpreting the myth of Sati: the devoted husband and the corpse of his wife -- Dismemberment as pluralization: the scattering of Sati's body parts and the self-pluralization of Shiva -- The Shakti Pithas: the active corpse, the immanent Shakti and the s...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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London ; New York
Routledge
2018
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| Schriftenreihe: | Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy
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| Zusammenfassung: | The human death, the divine corpse -- Reinterpreting the myth of Sati: the devoted husband and the corpse of his wife -- Dismemberment as pluralization: the scattering of Sati's body parts and the self-pluralization of Shiva -- The Shakti Pithas: the active corpse, the immanent Shakti and the sacred geography of Shaktism -- Shava Sadhana: who is the corpse? Shiva or Shakti? -- Placing the Devi's corpse on the shore of a thousand streams: a multicultural and comparativist reading of the Devi as corpse -- Shava-Rupa and Vishva-Rupa: the corpse form and the cosmic form of the Devi |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index 1806 |
| Beschreibung: | x,153 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781138480186 |