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Wonder in South Asia
- Histories, Aesthetics, Ethics
Engelsk Hardback
Wonder in South Asia
- Histories, Aesthetics, Ethics
Engelsk Hardback

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A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.

The experience of wonder-encompassing awe, bewilderment, curiosity, excitement, fear, dread, mystery, perplexity, reverence, surprise, and supplication-and the ineffable quality of that which is wondrous have been entwined in religion and human experience. Yet strangely, wonder in non-western societies, including South Asia, has rarely been acknowledged or understood. This groundbreaking volume brings together historians and ethnographers of South Asia, including leading and emerging scholars, to consider the place and meaning of wonder in such varied joyful, tense, and creative sites and moments as Sufi music performances in Gujarat, Tamil graveyard processions, trans women''s charitable practices, Kipling''s Orientalist tales, village Kuchipudi dance performances, and Rajasthani healing shrines. Offering a synthetic and scholarly reading of wonder that speaks to the political, aesthetic, and ethical worlds of South Asia, these essays redefine the nature and meaning of wonder and its worlds. Taken together, they provide an invaluable research tool for those in the fields of Asian religion, religion in context, and South Asian religions in particular.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
366
ISBN-13:
9781438495286
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1438495285
Udg. Dato:
1 nov 2023
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
1 nov 2023
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