Refiguring the Body: Embodiment in South Asian Religions
Contents -- Introduction: Body Matters in South Asia -- The Essays -- Part 1: Material Bodies, Embodied Selves, and Perfected Embodiments -- Part 2: Divine Bodies and Devotional Bodies -- Part 3: Gendered and Engendering Bodies -- Contributions to Re-figuring Body Theories -- Beyond Human Embodiment...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca
State University of New York Press
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Further subjects: | B
Hinduism
South Asia
B Buddhism South Asia B South Asia Religion South Asia B Human Body Religious aspects |
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Holdrege, Barbara A: Refiguring the Body : Embodiment in South Asian Religions. - Ithaca : State University of New York Press,c2016. - 9781438463155 |
| Summary: | Contents -- Introduction: Body Matters in South Asia -- The Essays -- Part 1: Material Bodies, Embodied Selves, and Perfected Embodiments -- Part 2: Divine Bodies and Devotional Bodies -- Part 3: Gendered and Engendering Bodies -- Contributions to Re-figuring Body Theories -- Beyond Human Embodiment -- Transforming Human Bodily Identities -- Notes -- References -- Part 1: Material Bodies, Embodied Selves, and Perfected Embodiments -- 1 Perfected Embodiment: A Buddhist-Inspired Challenge to Contemporary Theories of the Body -- The Materialist, Descriptivist Limitations of Contemporary Body Theories -- Beyond Modern Assumptions: Alternative Models from Religious Traditions -- Against an Exclusively Metaphorical Hermeneutic -- The Rejection of Sat-kāya-dṛṣṭi and the Realization of Dharma-kāya -- Challenges for Contemporary Body Theories -- Notes -- References -- 2 Body, Self, and Embodiment in the Sanskrit Classics of Āyurveda -- Self and Somatic Well-being -- The Material Body and the Embodied Self -- Self-cultivation -- The Cosmic Physiology -- Dharma and Body -- Notes -- References -- 3 Bodily Gestures and Embodied Awareness: Mudrā as the Bodily Seal of Being in the Trika Śaivism of Kashmir -- Mudrā as Mimetic Image -- Recollecting Abhinavagupta's Bodily Bearing -- Notes -- References -- 4 Bodied, Embodied, and Reflective Selves: Theorizing Performative Selfhood in South Indian Performance -- Scholarly Constructions of the Self -- A Theory of Performative Selfhood: Beyond Rasa Theory -- Effects of Possession on the Bodied, Embodied, and Reflective Selves -- Training the Performing Self in South Indian Classical Dance -- Conclusion: Constructing the Lingering Self -- Notes -- References -- Part 2: Divine Bodies and Devotional Bodies -- 5 Observations on the Bodies of the Gods in the Mahābhārata The Visual Accessibility and Multiplicity of the Gods' Bodies -- Vigraha: Gods and Human Bodies -- Mūrti: Condensed Presence -- Mūrti and Yoga -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 6 Bhakti and Embodiment: Bodies of Devotion and Bodies of Bliss in Kṛṣṇa Bhakti -- Bhakti and Embodiment -- The Gauḍīya Discourse of Embodiment -- Ananta-rūpa: The Limitless Forms of Kṛṣṇa -- Brahman, Paramātman, and Bhagavān -- Bhagavān's Self-Referral Play with His Śaktis -- The Absolute Body of Bhagavān -- The Source and Container of Avatāras -- The Gauḍīya Challenge to Advaita Vedānta and Pātañjala Yoga -- Mesocosmic Forms of Kṛṣṇa -- Sādhaka-Rūpa: Fashioning a Body of Devotion -- Re-figuring the Psychophysiology -- Engaging Kṛṣṇa's Mesocosmic Forms -- Siddha-Rūpa: Realizing a Body of Bliss -- Two Bodies: Sādhaka-Rūpa and Siddha-Rūpa -- Līlā-Smaraṇa and Realization of the Siddha-Rūpa -- The Physical Signs of Enraptured Devotion -- Notes -- References -- 7 To Body or Not to Body: Repulsion, Wonder, and the Tamil Saint Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār -- What She Said -- What He Said -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 8 Bodies of Desire, Bodies of Lament: Marking Emotion in a South Indian Vaiṣṇava Messenger Poem -- Rāma's Love-Madness and the Royal Goose -- An Ornament for Jewels: The Landscape's Beloved Body -- Sītā's Body of Desire and Lament -- The Body of the Text: Separation, Memory, and "Time Regained" -- Notes -- References -- Part 3: Gendered and Engendering Bodies -- 9 Defining Women's Bodies in Indian Buddhist Monastic Literature -- Women with Nonnormative Bodies -- Nonnormative Women's Bodies in Indian Buddhist Traditions -- Demarcating Women's Bodies -- Notes -- References -- 10 Murderer, Saint, and Midwife: The Gendered Logic of Engendering in Buddhist Narratives of Aṅgulimāla's Conversion -- Aṅgulimāla's Story -- Birth Done Better -- Male Fertility Will the Real Mother Please Stand Up? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 11 Fruitful Austerity: Paradigms of Embodiment in Hindu Women's Vrat Performances -- Chaṭh Vrat Narratives -- Practice of the Chaṭh Vrat -- Auspicious Body -- Ascetic Body -- Purity Body -- Devotional Body -- Notes -- References -- Afterword: Bodies of Knowledge -- Contributors -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1438463162 |