Notes from a Mandala

Patton, Laurie L. [u.a.] (Hrsg.):
Notes from a Mandala : essays in the history of indian religions in honor of Wendy Doniger / edited by Laurie L. Patton and David L. Haberman. - [Rev. ed.]. - Newark, NJ : University of Delaware Press, 2010. - 348 S. : Ill.
ISBN: 978-0-87413-060-7
US$ 45,00
DDC: 294
Festschrift für Wendy Doniger
-- Angekündigt für 2010 --

Beschreibung
Notes from a Mandala gathers together current work in the history, ethnography and textual study of religions in honor of the career of Wendy Doniger. Its authors are a new generation of leading scholars whose work falls in the interstices between the traditional disciplines: gender studies; the history of sexuality; the role of textual study and translation in the early twenty-first century; the borders between myth and literature; and the place between ethnography and history of religions. Whether they are about history of religions, sexuality, politics, cross-cultural translation, or the slipperiness of categories, these essays honor a woman who has given many in the field a vocabulary for true scholarly conversation. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Foreword / David Dean Shulman
Introduction / Laurie L. Patton with David Haberman
PART I: DIALOGUE WITH THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
   - The erotic ascetic and the religiohistorical sublime / Daniel Gold
   - Birth done better : conceiving the immortal fetus in India, China, and Renaissance Europe / Hugh B. Urban
   - Being Blake : antinomian thought, counterculture, and the art of the history of religions / Jeffrey R. Kripal
PART II: TRANSLATING ACROSS CULTURES
   - Textual intimacy : benefits and techniques of academic translation / David L. Haberman
   - Pages from the book of religions : comparing self and other in Mughal India / Aditya Behl
   - The politics of "other peoples' myths" / Gail Sutherland
PART III: NEW READINGS OF CLASSICAL INDIAN TEXTS
   - The passions of late vedic texts : a short study of the emotion of fear in the Rgvidhana / Laurie L. Patton
   - The sacrifice of battle and the battle of yoga; or, how to word-away a discontented wife / Tamar Reich
   - At the Mandala's dark fringe : possession and protection in Tantric Bhairava cults / David Gordon White
   - Sitas dilemmas through the mail : Kumudini's mattering map of the Ramayana / Paula Richman
   - Inside/outside : where is Valmiki in the story he tells? / Arshia Sattar
PART IV: ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
   - Seizing the zombie's tongue : ambivalent protectors in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal / Liz Wilson
   - Skirting the issue : gender and identity in Kutiyattam Sanskrit drama / Bruce M. Sullivan
   - On method and narrative; or, how a textualist gave birth to two ethnographers / Mathew N. Schmalz and Peter Gottschalk
Wendy's children : an afterword / Wendy Doniger.

Gefeierte Person

WENDY DONIGER, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School, University of Chicago. Profile page; Wikipedia.

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LAURIE L. PATTON is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Early Indian Religions at Emory University. Profile page
DAVID HABERMAN teaches Hinduism in the Department of Religion at Indiana University. Profile page.

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