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Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees: Essays on the Guardians of Popular Hinduism

Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees: Essays on the Guardians of Popular Hinduism


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The Hindu sacred order is guarded by the very gods who violate it and the demons who oppose it. This book is a who's who of such transgressive figures, both familiar and unfamiliar, showing their place within the Hindu order that they violate. It is also a reflection of the serious scholarly debate over the nature and composition of this Hindu order. The chapters range from pan-Hindu deities such as Bhairava and Virabhadra to guardian gods of specific regions and lineages and of different goddess cults. Chapters cover violent themes in SAaivite hagiography, the position of Brahmans in relation to cultic carnivorism, guardian heroes in folk epic, the deified dead, the royal mythology of a "criminal caste," and a wide-ranging overview of transgressive sacrality.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction Alf Hiltebeitel 1 Brahmans and Meat-Eating Gods Madeleine Biardeau 2 Outcaste, Guardian, and Trickster: Notes on the Myth of Kattavarayan David Dean Shulman 3 The Changing Face of Kattavarayan Eveline Masilamani-Meyer 4 Tricking the Goddess: Cowherd Katamaraju and Goddess Ganga in the Telugu Folk Epic Velcheru Narayana Rao 5 Night of the Growing Dead: A Cult of Virabhadra in Coastal Andhra David M. Knipe 6 Bhairava's Royal Brahmanicide: The Problem of the Mahabrahmana Elizabeth-Chalier Visuvalingam 7 New Data on the Kapalikas David N. Lorenzen 8 Rapist or Bodyguard, Demon or Devotee? Images of Bhairo in the Mythology and Cult of Vaisno Devi Kathleen M. Erndl 9 The Bir Babas of Banaras and the Deified Dead Diane M. Coccari 10 The Capitulation of Mani: A Conversion Myth in the Cult of Khandoba John M. Stanley 11 Between Ghost and God: A Folk Deity of the Deccan Gunther D. Sontheimer 12 Draupadi's Two Guardians: The Buffalo King and the Muslim Devotee Alf Hiltebeitel 13 Violent and Fanatical Devotion among the Nayanars: A Study in the Periya Puranam of Cekkilar D. Dennis Hudson 14 From Robber Baron to Royal Servant of God? Gaining a Divine Body in South India Joanne Punzo Waghorne 15 The Transgressive Sacrality of the Diksita: Sacrifice, Criminality and Bhakti in the Hindu Tradition Sunthar Visuvalingam Selected Bibliography Contributors Index

About the Author :
Alf Hiltebeitel is a Professor in the Department of Religion at George Washington University. He is the author of The Ritual of Battle: Krishna in the Mahabharata and The Cult of Draupadi.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780887069826
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 504
  • Spine Width: 26 mm
  • Weight: 780 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0887069827
  • Publisher Date: 03 Oct 1989
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Essays on the Guardians of Popular Hinduism
  • Width: 152 mm


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