The living and the dead : social dimensions of death in South Asian religions / edited by Liz Wilson.

"This collection examines the social dimensions of death in South Asian religions, exploring the ritualized exchanges between the living and the dead performed by Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and other religious groups. Using ethnographic and historical tools associated with the comparative and...

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Other Authors: Wilson, Liz
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Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.
Series:SUNY series in Hindu studies.
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505 0 |a Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Transcription -- Introduction: Passing On: The Social Life of Death in South Asian Religions -- Ashes to Nectar: Death and Regeneration among the Rasa Siddhas and NÃÆth Siddhas* -- Human Torches of Enlightenment: Autocremation and Spontaneous Combustion as Marks of Sanctity in South Asian Buddhism -- When a Wife Dies First: The -- and a Female Brahman Ritualist in Coastal Andhra -- Return to Tears: Musical Mourning, Emotion, and Religious Reform in Two South Asian Minority Communities 
505 8 |a Deanimating and Reanimating the Dead in Rural Sri LankaThe Suppression of Nuns and the Ritual Murder of Their Special Dead in Two Buddhist Monastic Texts* -- A Funeral to Part with the Living: ATamil Countersorcery Ritual1 -- Dead Healers and Living Identities: Narratives of a Hindu Ghost and a Muslim Sufi in a Shared Village* -- Contributors -- Index 
520 1 |a "This collection examines the social dimensions of death in South Asian religions, exploring the ritualized exchanges between the living and the dead performed by Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and other religious groups. Using ethnographic and historical tools associated with the comparative and historical study of religion, the contributors also record the voices and actions of marginalized groups - such as tribal peoples, women, and members of lower castes - who are often underrepresented in studies of South Asian deathways, which typically focus on the writings and practices of elite groups. For many religious people, death entails a journey leading to some new condition or place. As the ultimate experience of passage, it is highly ceremonial and ritualized, and those beliefs and practices associated with the moment of death itself - death-bed ceremonies, funerary rites, and rituals of mourning and of remembering - are examined here. The Living and the Dead offers historical depth, ethnographic detail, and conceptual clarity on a subject that is of immense importance in South Asian religious traditions."--Jacket. 
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