The Self Possessed: Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asian Literature and Civilization by Frederick M. Smith

The Self Possessed: Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asian Literature and Civilization



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The Self Possessed: Deity and Spirit Possession in South Asian Literature and Civilization Frederick M. Smith
Language: English
Page: 731
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0231137486, 9780231137485
Publisher: Columbia University Press

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This comprehensive work should appear on the shelf of every serious scholar of South Asian religion... Essential.

(CHOICE )

An important and path-breaking book.

(Alf Hiltebeitel Journal of the American Oriental Society )

An amazing and essential study for anybody working on deity and spirit possession in South Asia.

(Beatrix Hauser Social Anthropology )

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For centuries if not millennia, the elephant in the room of South Asian religions has been the phenomenon of possession. In this paradigm-shifting work, Frederick M. Smith not only situates 'permeable embodiment' at the core of a wide array of Vedic, devotional, Tantric, medical, literary, and vernacular traditions, but also tells us the reasons for its incongruous erasure from the normative discourse of Indian analytical thought. This work of breathtaking sweep and stunning erudition will force scholars to rethink the fundamental categories of self, person, body, and mind in South Asia.

(David White, professor of religious studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Vol 16, No 3)

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