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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 266–269.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Daniel Gold When a Goddess Dies: Worshipping Mā Ānandamayī after Her Death . By Orianne Aymard . New York : Oxford University Press , 2014 . xi, 348 pp. ISBN: 9780199368624 (paper). The Afterlife of Sai Baba: Competing Visions of a Global Saint . By Karline...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 464–468.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Eliza F. Kent Possessed by the Virgin: Hinduism, Roman Catholicism, and Marian Possession in South India . By Kristin C. Bloomer . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . xv, 325 pp. The Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India . By David Mosse...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 21 (1): 88–89.
Published: 01 November 1961
...) that she has enjoyed snuff bottles in the Seattle Art Museum and the Museum of Natural History in New York as well as the Philadelphia Museum of Art. JEAN GORDON LEE Philadelphia Museum of Art The Hundred Thousand Songs: Selections From Milarepa, Poet-Saint of Tibet Translated from the Tibetan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 711–732.
Published: 01 August 2014
... as a saint in northern Thailand today, during his lifetime he was detained under temple arrest on multiple occasions. He was sent to Bangkok in 1920 and 1935 to face charges that ranged from conducting unauthorized ordinations to treason. For the controversies he generated, the media of the day called him...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 435–464.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Anna Bigelow Abstract Although Punjab experienced serious violence during the 1947 partition, no one died in Malerkotla. This peace at partition is central to the collective identity of the town, founded in 1454 by a Sufi saint. Focusing on the power of the saint, his tomb shrine, and his...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (1): 229–235.
Published: 01 February 2016
... , 2013 . 269 pp. ISBN 9781932476668 (cloth). The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa . By Andrew Quintman . New York : Columbia University Press , 2013 . xi, 314 pp. ISBN 9780231164146 (cloth). Love and Liberation: Autobiographical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 957–959.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Ramya Sreenivasan Conquest and Community: The Afterlife of Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan . By Shahid Amin . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2016 . xix, 321 pp. ISBN: 9780226372570 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019 2019 Shahid Amin's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1298–1300.
Published: 01 November 2009
...William Londo Sacred Kōyasan: A Pilgrimage to the Mountain Temple of Saint Kōbō Daishi and the Great Sun Buddha . By Philip L. Nicoloff . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2008 . xvii , 392 pp. $89.50 (cloth); $31.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 1057–1058.
Published: 01 November 1996
...Ellison Banks Findly Thai Tellings of Phra Malai: Texts and Rituals Concerning a Popular Buddhist Saint . By Bonnie Pacala Brereton . Tempe : Southeast Asia Program, Arizona State University , 1995 . xiii, 252 pp. $24.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 1012–1014.
Published: 01 August 2009
... and erudite study of the thirteenth-century Marathi-speaking saint Namdev. It maps, for the first time, the presence of Namdev across a range of cultural archives, from medieval hagiographic texts to contemporary Marathi cinema. Novetzke's seamless movement through these materials enables a reading of bhakti...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 959–960.
Published: 01 November 1991
...Glenn Yocum Āṇṭāḷ and Her Path of Love: Poems of a Woman Saint from South India . By Vidya Dehejia . Albany, New York : SUNY Press , 1990 . viii, 183 pp. $12.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 959 instrument of public...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 463–466.
Published: 01 August 2023
... joins previous works in dismantling problematic yet commonplace, bifurcated images of Tibetan Buddhism as either backward/degenerate/traditional or progressive/peaceful/modern. In Renunciation and Longing: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint, Annabella Pitkin deftly weaves...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 722–723.
Published: 01 August 2021
...James Pickett In Remembrance of the Saints: The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty . By Muḥammad Ṣadiq Kashghari , translated by David Brophy . New York : Columbia University Press , 2020 . xviii, 226 pp. ISBN: 9780231198196 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 163–164.
Published: 01 February 2020
...Michael Krautkraemer Jeff Eden's Warrior Saints of the Silk Road presents precisely what the subtitle suggests—legendary accounts of the Qarakhanid groups who ruled the Tarim Basin city of Kashgar from the mid-tenth to the early eleventh century, their conversion to Islam, and subsequent holy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (4): 957–958.
Published: 01 November 1990
...Pamela G. Price Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Asian Society, 1700–1900 . By Susan Bayly . New York : Cambridge University Press , South Asian Studies 43, 1990 . xv, 504 pp. $59.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (2): 251–268.
Published: 01 February 1983
...Katherine Ewing Abstract In Pakistan Muslim shrines have traditionally been maintained by hereditary saints ( pirs ), who often command a large following. Leaders of Pakistan have felt that the organization of the shrines has been incompatible with their political and religious goals. This article...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 45 (1): 202–203.
Published: 01 November 1985
...Lucien M. Hanks The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets: A Study in Charisma, Hagiography, Sectarianism, and Millennial Buddhism . By Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah , New York : Cambridge University Press , 1984 . xii, 417 pp. Photographs, Notes, Index. $54.50 (cloth); $1795...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (2): 450–452.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Karen G. Ruffel Muslim Saints of South Asia: The Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries . By Anna Suvorova . London and New York : RoutledgeCurzon , 2004 . xii , 244 pp. $115.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 450 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (1): 193–194.
Published: 01 February 1996
...John S. Strong Buddhist Saints in India: A Study in Buddhist Values and Orientations . By Reginald A. Ray . New York : Oxford University Press , 1994 . xviii, 508 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 193...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 1144–1146.
Published: 01 November 1997
... as a commercial enterprise and a territorial power. This work joins a select group of critical studies on the eighteenth-century economic and political history of South Asia. DOUGLAS E. H A Y N E S Dartmouth College Myths, Saints and Legends in Medieval India. By CHARLOTTE VAUDEVILLE. Compiled...
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