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...Indira Viswanathan Peterson Songs of the Harsh Devotee: The Tēvāram of Cuntaramūrttināyaṉār . Translated and annotated by David Dean Shulman . Philadelphia : Department of South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania , 1990 . lxiv, 633 pp. Copyright © The Association...

...Daud Ali Donors, Devotees, and Daughters of God: Temple Women in Medieval Tamilnadu . By Leslie C. Orr . New York : Oxford University Press , 2000 . 305 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 906 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES (not Gautama...

...Gananath Obeyesekere Abstract At the tip of southeastern Sri Lanka is the shrine of Kataragama, sacred to Skanda, the son of Śiva. There, every year in the Sinhala month äsala (July/August), devotees walk the length of a pit containing a thick layer of red-hot coals. Many Buddhists and Hindus...

...Michael Dalby Abstract Devotees of operatic silliness will recall how Anna Russell, in her music hall routine explaining the convoluted plot of Wagner's Ring , prepares her audience for the reappearance of that disgusting dwarf Allllberic (“ten hours after the damned opera begins”), and leans...

... lead the devotee to a recognition of the relativity of dharma and to an acceptance of a basic dimension of evil within the deity. This conclusion is seen to be consistent with the positive attitude of the South Indian theistic traditions toward mundane reality—an attitude that contrasts markedly...

...Jun Etō Abstract One often has the impression that young Japanese writers today are more eager to follow Western fads than to explore the Japanese tradition. Far from being devotees of Zen Buddhism, they are more likely to come to it through translations of Kerouac and other beatniks. In this paper...

..., Thailand, and Taiwan working to protect the environment (Lee 1993; Paribatra 1993; Weller and Hsiao 1998); or the more prosaic groups of Chinese factory workers, entrepreneurs, crime syndicates, or qigong devotees slowly reworking the state's boundaries (Chamberlain 1993; Madsen 1993; McCormick, Su...

.... There were even those who insisted that devotees of Tamil could look forward to a life amongst the gods, while its enemies were destined to languish in hell. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 List of References Benedict Anderson . 1983 . Imagined Communities...

..., Srinivas argues that we “need a common language to be able to discuss the possibilities and problems of equity and diversity in multireligious and multicultural societies” (p. 327). But, I wonder whether devotion to Sai Baba is, in fact, the “common language” through which devotees are able to subordinate...

... are be is completely undiscussed. It is interesting those devotees who "carry kavati," their flesh that no work on Indian music besides his or tongues pierced by fishhooks and skewers, own on North Indian Ragas is cited in the while in a state of trance or possession. They bibliography, and none on Gregorian chant...

... in the spiritual nourishment extended to the devotee through a unity of the senses and “a unity of meaning within a culture” that makes the experienced practitioner fit to participate in ever more advanced love games with Krishna within herself, where hearing and seeing Krishna merge (p. 27). Chapters...

... adds some laudable breadth to the study, but also some extra baggage. Thus, the first two chapters, while also containing some voices of devotees, are much more dispassionate than the last three and seem detached from them. The first chapter, describing Ma's ashrams, their administration...

... worship, the origins and genesis of the temple, tradition and innovation in Hinduism, devotees' participation and aspirations, and the challenges of establishing a historical religion new to the American context. Although the “Rush temple” (Sri Rajarajeswari Peetham, http://www.srividya.org ) is in many...

... in the colonial and postcolonial periods. The book thus aims to show how the Tamil language is transformed into an object of devotion, as "Mother Tamil" in modernity, to study the lives of some of its prominent "devotees" and, finally, to examine how this devotion in turn generates the modern Tamil subject...

... evokes considerable tension with the more widely accepted values of Hindu thought. Thus, this particular section of the Subodhini is called Tdmasaphalaprakarana, which Redington translates as "The Treatise on the Reward of the Tamasa-devotees" (p. 17). The Gopls are classified as tdmasa people, the word...

... of devotees centered around AnandamayT Ma, the Bengali woman revered as a saint, a guru, and even God, Lisa BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 467 Lassell Hallstrom concludes her introduction to Mother of Bliss by hoping that her book will be "worthy of the community's trust in me" (p. 17). Indeed, I cannot imagine...

... it is removed from its original South Asian context. Even as scholars and devotees have grappled with the particular issues surrounding the phenomenon of the role and identity of the guru gure, another important contribution enters the discussion in the form of this important volume, which focuses solely...

... a religious path as its devotee would see and experience it. Further, during this period, he formulated a series of questions which have preoccupied him and which he attempts to answer in his book: What are the common rhythms of nature which humanity observes and must respond to? How does a religious...

... the Caitanya lila and the astayama lila, innovations on the traditional theatrical form known as raslila. This guru's small but dedicated group of devotees makes up the audience who bore witness to the central episode of the book, "the coming of the black bee." The Bhagavata Purana contains a story about...

..., 230 pp. $17.00 (cloth). This book focuses on the extraordinary emotional bond between devotee and icon in the Pushtimarg (a devotional cult popular among the urban business castes). It provides copious detail and original data on the intricacies of seva ("service") of the deity, which differs from...