Indian asceticism : power, violence, and play /

Indian cultural discourses and narratives about ascetics are examined to understand the powers exhibited by ascetics, which are byproducts of their path, and the ways that these powers are interconnected to issues of violence and forms of play (eroticism, the demonic, the comic, and the miraculous)....

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Main Author:	Olson, Carl (Author)
Corporate Author:	UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Asceticism. India > Religion. Ascétisme. Inde > Religion. asceticism. RELIGION > Comparative Religion. Asceticism Religion India Religion. Philosophy & Religion. Eastern Religions. Electronic books.
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