Research Catalog

Title

The goddess in Hindu-Tantric traditions : Devi as corpse / Anway Mukhopadhyay.

Author

Mukhopadhyay, Anway

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Description

x, 153 pages; 23 cm

Series Statement

Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy.

Subject

• Hindu goddesses
• Śakti (Hindu deity)
• Shaktism
• Tantrism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references 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.

Call Number

JFD 18-4291

ISBN

• 9781138480186
• 1138480185

LCCN

• 2018001285
• 40028196697

OCLC

1012347378

Author

Mukhopadhyay, Anway, author.

Title

The goddess in Hindu-Tantric traditions : Devi as corpse / Anway Mukhopadhyay.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy

Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007065135

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Standard Identifier

40028196697

Research Call Number

JFD 18-4291