Smith The Self Possessed

Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asian Literature and Civilization
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-231-51065-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 736 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Frederick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Orthodoxies, Madness, and Method
1. Academic and Brahmanical Orthodoxies
Part II: Ethnography, Modernity, and the Languages of Possession
2. New and Inherited Paradigms: Methodologies for the Study of Possession
3. Possession, Trance Channeling, and Modernity
4. Notes on Regional Languages and Models of Possession
Part III. Classical Literature
5. The Vedas and Upanisads
6. Friendly Acquisitions, Hostile Takeovers, The Panorama of Possession in the Sanskrit Epics
7. Enlightenment and the Classical Culture of Possession
8. Vampires, Prostitutes, and Poets: Narrativity and the Aesthetics of Possession
9. Devotion as Possession
10. Possession in Tantra: Constructed Bodies and Empowerment
11. Tantra and the Diaspora of Childhood Possession
12. The Medicalization of Possession in Ayurveda and Tantra
13. Conclusions: Identity Among the Possessed and Dispossessed
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Frederick M. Smith studied Sanskrit for more than a decade in Pune, Madras, and elsewhere in India, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is known for his work on Vedic ritual and the early sixteenth-century philosopher Vallabhacarya, whose work he has been translating. With his work on deity and spirit possession, his interest in Indian religious and spiritual experience has assumed a unique form. He teaches at the University of Iowa.