Foreword |
David Shulman |
Introduction |
Laurie L. Patton with David Haberman |
Part I: Dialogue with the history of religions |
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The erotic ascetic and the religiohistorical sublime |
Daniel Gold |
Birth done better : conceiving the immortal fetus in India, China, and Renaissance Europe |
Hugh B. Urban |
Being Blake : antinomian thought, counterculture, and the art of the history of religions |
Jeffrey R. Kripal |
Part II: Translating across cultures |
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Textual intimacy : benefits and techniques of academic translation |
David L. Haberman |
Pages from the book of religions : comparing self and other in Mughal India |
Aditya Behl |
The politics of "other peoples' myths" |
Gail Sutherland |
Part III: New readings of classical Indian texts |
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The passions of late vedic texts : a short study of the emotion of fear in the Ṛgvidhāna |
Laurie L. Patton |
The sacrifice of battle and the battle of yoga; or, how to word-away a discontented wife |
Tamar Reich |
At the Maṇḍala's dark fringe : possession and protection in Tantric Bhairava cults |
David Gordon White |
Sītā's dilemmas through the mail : Kumudini's mattering map of the Rāmāyaṇa |
Paula Richman |
Inside/outside : where is Vālmīki in the story he tells? |
Arshia Sattar |
Part IV: Ethnography and the history of religions |
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Seizing the zombie's tongue : ambivalent protectors in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal |
Liz Wilson |
Skirting the issue : gender and identity in Kūṭiyāṭṭam Sanskrit drama |
Bruce M. Sullivan |
On method and narrative; or, how a textualist gave birth to two ethnographers |
Mathew N. Schmalz and Peter Gottschalk |
Wendy's children : an afterword |
Wendy Doniger |
Foreword |
David Shulman |
Introduction |
Laurie L. Patton with David Haberman |
Part I: Dialogue with the history of religions |
|
The erotic ascetic and the religiohistorical sublime |
Daniel Gold |
Birth done better : conceiving the immortal fetus in India, China, and Renaissance Europe |
Hugh B. Urban |
Being Blake : antinomian thought, counterculture, and the art of the history of religions |
Jeffrey R. Kripal |