...Catharina Kiehnle Dattātreya: The Immortal Guru, Yogin, and Avatāra: A Study of the Transformative and Inclusive Character of a Multi-Faceted Hindu Deity . By Antonio Rigopoulos . SUNY Series in Religious Studies. Edited by Harold Coward . Albany : State University of New York Press...

...Gary L. Ebersole The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity . By Royall Tyler . New York : Columbia University Press , 1990 . xv, 314 pp. $47.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 426 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Japan. The book is well written and clearly...

... are written on this subject Dr. Li's work will provide a solid foundation. He deserves the gratitude of every student of Tibetan history and culture. SCHUYLER V. R . CAMMANN University of Pennsylvania Oracles and Demons of Tibet. The Cult and Iconography of the Tibetan Protective Deities. By RENE^ DE NEBESKT...

...Deborah Winslow Abstract The author of this article examines the role of Sinhalese Buddhist deities within the long Sinhalese tradition of using Buddhism to support political authority. Extensive contemporary information on deity territories suggests that because state political integration...

...Kristen Rudisill Celluloid Deities: The Visual Culture of Cinema and Politics in South India . By Preminda Jacob . Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , 2009 . 304 pp. $80.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Preminda Jacob's book Celluloid...

...Chang-Tai Hung Domesticated Deities and Auspicious Emblems: The Iconography of Everyday Life in Village China . By Po Sung-Nien and David Johnson . Berkeley : Publications of the Chinese Popular Culture Project 2 . Distributed by IEAS Publications, 2223 Fulton St., Berkeley, Calif. 94720...

...Diane P. Mines Guardians of Tamilnadu: Folk Deities, Folk Religion, Hindu Themes . By Eveline Masilamani-Meyer . Halle, Germany : Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle , 2004 . 279 pp. E 15.80. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 646 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S...

...Erick White Deities and Divas: Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand, and Beyond . Edited by Peter A. Jackson and Benjamin Baumann . Copenhagen : NIAS Press , 2022 . xii, 311 pp. ISBN: 9788776943073 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Focused on the growing...

...Thomas E. Fricke Order in Paradox: Myth, Ritual, and Exchange Among Nepal's Tamang . By David H. Holmberg . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1989 . xvi, 265 pp. $29.95. Depicted Deities: Painter's Model Books in Nepal . By M. L. B. Blom . Groningen, The Netherlands : Egbert...

... not work and rely on nonexistent deities. The article does not give a final statement on either of these positions. The next section, on “Getting What You Need,” has an article on Tamil devotional vows to Shiva by Karen Pechilis, renunciant vows among the Ramananda Sampradaya by Ramdas Lamb, Shvetambar...

...Michael Szonyi Abstract Nineteenth-century observers of the Fuzhou area, both Chinese and Western, were struck by the worship of a group of deities associated with pestilence and epidemic disease. The local people called these gods the Five Emperors ( Wudi ). To Justus Doolittle, an American...

...Ting Guo Abstract This article highlights the neglected political participation of Daoism, Buddhism, and Chinese folk religions in Hong Kong in recent years, focusing on how local communities creatively engage with three deities in particular, namely Wong Tai Sin 黃大仙, Kwan Kung 關公, and Che Kung 車公...

... relationship between the prosperity of the kingdom and reverence for Phra Khaphung, a “spirit-deity” living in a nearby mountain. Phra Khaphung is characterized as a phī-thewadā , combining phī (an indigenous Thai form meaning “spirit,” “ghost”) with thewadā (a form derived from Hindu-Buddhist cosmology...

... ). But in the famous episode in which Rāma slays Vālin, the king of the monkeys, Kampaṉ challenges the assumption of the deity's righteousness and freedom from evil. Kampaṉ's treatment of this issue is unusual among South Indian devotional texts because of its clarity and boldness; the answers suggested by the poet...

...Suchitra Samanta Abstract K ālī , the Hindu goddess ‘Time,’ is a ubiquitous presence in contemporary rural and urban Bengali life and occupies a historic place as Calcutta's patron deity. Her prototypes go back to pre-Vedic India (Kinsley 1977:90; MacKenzie-Brown 1985:111). Kālī was incorporated...

...Bryan Pfaffenberger Abstract Tamil Hindu and Sinhalese Buddhist pilgrims gather each year at Sri Lanka's most important polyethnic shrine, Kataragama, where they worship the deity Skanda (or Murukanṉ). The remarkable tone of ecumenism and tolerance there stands in clear contrast to the mutual...

... of early Indo-European cosmology, myths, rites, deities and social structure, have sent dozens of historians of religion, philologists and linguists to the texts in efforts to either corroborate or disprove his theories. The extent of Dumézil's influence may be seen in the number of scholars who have...

...Ralph W. Nicholas Abstract Śītalā, Goddess of Smallpox, is the preeminent tutelary deity of villages in southwestern Bengal, and a goddess of the same name has a prominent role in Hindu pantheons throughout northern India. Her rise to importance is closely related to the history of smallpox, which...