The issue of divinizing in South Asian traditions has not been examined before as a process involving various methods to affect the socio-cultural cognition of

This book analyses cultural questions related to representations of the body in South Asian traditions, human perceptions and attitudes toward the body in relig

This book deals with the interface between identity, culture and literature. It aims at studying questions of cultural identity and gender in Hindi plays of the

This volume examines several theoretical concerns of embodiment in the context of Asian religious practice. Looking at both subtle and spatial bodies, it explor

The Great Goddess, in her various puranic and tantric forms, is often figured as sitting on a corpse which is identified as Shiva-as-shava (God Shiva, the conso