Notes from a Maṇḍala : essays in the history of Indian religions in honor of Wendy Doniger /
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Newark :
University of Delaware Press,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Part II: Translating across cultures
- 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
- 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
- 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.