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Subject(s)

• Hindu goddesses [Browse]
• Śakti (Hindu deity) [Browse]
• Shaktism [Browse]
• Tantrism [Browse]

Series

Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy [More in this series]

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 ((hardback))
• 1138480185 ((hardback))

LCCN

2018001285

OCLC

1012347378

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