Format:
x,153 Seiten
ISBN:
9781138480186
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy 23
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
1806
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-351-06354-8
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Indien
;
Hinduismus
;
Tantrismus
;
Göttin
;
Schaktismus
;
Mahādevī
;
Leiche
;
Mythos
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