An edition of Religions of the East (2010)

Religions of the East

Religions of the East
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An edition of Religions of the East (2010)

Religions of the East

Collection of previously published essays.

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Publisher
Ashgate
Language
English
Pages
513

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Table of Contents

Concerning Kamasutras :
challenging narratives of history and sexuality -- Jyoti Puri
The cult of the Earth Goddess among the Magar of Nepal -- Marie Lecomte-Tilouine
Women in Honglou meng :
prescriptions of purity in the femininity of Qing Dynasty China -- Louise Edwards
Contemporary Theravāda and Zen Buddhist attitudes to human sexuality :
an exercise in comparative ethics -- Michel Clasquin-Johnson
Sexuality :
the Chinese and the Judeo-Christian traditions in Hong Kong -- Adolf K.T. Tsang
Singing the glory of asceticism :
devotion of asceticism in Jainism -- John E. Cort
Asceticism and sexuality in the mythology of Śiva, part II -- Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
Temple girls of medieval Karnataka -- Aloka Parasher and Usha Naik
Kumari or virgin worship in Kathmandu Valley -- M.R. Allen
Social consequences of marrying Viṣṇu Nārāyaṇa :
primary marriage among the Newars of Kathmandu Valley -- Anne Vergati
Abductions and the constellation of a Hindu communal bloc in Bengal of the 1920s -- P.K. Dutta
Women, sexuality and enlightenment :
Kankyo no tomo -- Rajyashree Pandey
Re-imagining the divine in Sikhism -- Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh
The power to pollute and the power to preserve :
perceptions of female power in a Hindu village -- Catherine Thompson
Lustful women, elusive lovers :
identifying males as objects of female desire -- Prem Chowdhry
Not this, not that :
the Hijras of India and the cultural politics of sexuality -- Vinay Lal
"Like a city ablaze" :
the third sex and the creation of sexuality in Jain religious literature -- Leonard Zwilling and Michael J. Sweet
A comparative analysis of Hijras and drag queens :
the subversive possiblities and limits of parading effeminacy and negotiating masculinity -- Sandeep Bakshi
Transsexualism, gender, and anxiety in traditional India -- Robert P. Goldman
Ambiguous sexuality :
imagery and interpretation in Tantric Buddhism -- Roger R. Jackson.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Farnham, Burlington, Vt
Series
The library of essays on sexuality and religion, Library of essays on sexuality and religion

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
201.7095
Library of Congress
BL65.S4 R47 2010, BL65.S4, BL65.S4 R47 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxvii, 513 p. ;
Number of pages
513

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24826804M
ISBN 10
0754629228
ISBN 13
9780754629221
LCCN
2010931192
OCLC/WorldCat
646397261, 988029033

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