Criminal gods and demon devotees : essays on the guardians of popular Hinduism / Alf Hiltebeitel, editor
1989, First Edition. Albany: State University of New York Press. Very good copy in the original color-printed boards. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #381936
ISBN: 0887069827
Physical description: 491 pages; illustrations. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-472) and index. Contents: Brahmans and meat-eating gods / Madeleine Biardeau; Outcaste, guardian and trickster: notes on the myth of Kattavarayan / David Dean Shulman; The changing face of Kattavarayan / Eveline Masilamani-Meyer; Tricking the goddess: cowherd Katamaraju and goddess Ganga in the Telugu folk epic / Velcheru Narayana Rao; Night of the growing dead: a cult of Virabhadra in coastal Andhra / David M. Knipe; Bhairava's royal Brahmanicide: the problem of the Mahabrahmana / Elizabeth-Chalier Visuvalingam; New data on the Kapalikas / David N. Lorenzen; Rapist or bodyguard, demon or devotee? Images of Bhairo in the mythology and cult of Vaisno Devi / Kathleen M. Erndl; The Bir Babas of Banaras and the deified dead / Diane M. Coccari; The capitualtion of Mani: a conversion myth in the cult of Khandoba / John M. Stanley; Between ghost and god: a folk deity of the Deccan / Günther D. Sontheimer; Draupadi's two guardians: the Buffalo King and the Muslim devotee / Alf Hilbreitel; Violent and fanatical devotion among the Nayanars: a study in the Periya Puranam of Cekkilar / D. Dennis Hudson; From robber baron to royal servant of god? Gaining a divine body in south India / Joanne Punzo Waghorne; The transgressive sacrality of the Diksita: sacrifice, criminality and Bhakti in the Hindu tradition / Sunthar Visuvalingam. Subjects: Hindu gods. Hindu cults. Dieux hindous. Cultes hindous. RELIGION Hinduism Theology. Hindu cults. Hindu gods.
Hindu gods. Hindu cults. Gods, Hindu. Hindu cults. Hindu gods.
Cultos hindúes. 11.92 Hinduism. Dämon Dämonie Götter Hinduismus
Aufsatzsammlung Goden. Demonen. Hindoeïsme. Hindu gods. Hindu cults. Hinduismus. Götter. Dämonie. Dämon. Aufsatzsammlung.
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