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The goddess in Hindu-Tantric traditions : Devi as corpse / Anway Mukhopadhyay.
Author
Mukhopadhyay, Anway
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
©2018
Description
x, 153 pages ; 23 cm.
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Subject(s)
Hindu goddesses
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Shaktism
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Tantrism
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Śakti (Hindu deity)
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Series
Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-146) and index.
Contents
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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ISBN
9781138480186 (hardcover)
1138480185 (hardcover)
LCCN
2018001285
OCLC
1012347378
Other standard number
40028196697
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