Tantra, ritual performance, and politics in Nepal and Kerala: embodying the goddess-clan

Introduction: Methodology and context -- Introducing the southern case study : Teyyāṭṭam, Northern Malabar, Kerala -- Introducing the northern case study : Navadurgā, Bhaktapur, Nepal -- Dancer-medium communities and ritual kinship -- History and assimilation in Tantric cosmology -- Sacrifice, earth...

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Main Author: Martin, Matthew 1991- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill [2020]
In: Studies in the history of religions (volume 166)
Year: 2020
Series/Journal:Studies in the history of religions volume 166
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Nepal / Shaktism / Kerala / Theyyam / Goddess / Cult
B Bhaktapur / Malabar / Navaratri
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
KBM Asia
Further subjects:B Religion And Politics (Nepal) (Bhaktapur)
B Durgā (Hindu deity) Cult (Nepal) (Bhaktapur)
B Religious dance (Nepal) (Bhaktapur)
B Durgā-pūjā (Hindu festival) (Nepal) (Bhaktapur)
B Religious dance (India) (Kerala)
B Religion And Politics (India) (Kerala)
B Thesis
B Shaktism Rituals
B Theyyam (Dance) (India) (Kerala)
B Mediums Religious aspects Shaktism
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