LEADER 03213nam 2200565Ia 450 001 9910825677403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7914-8701-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780791487013 035 $a(CKB)2670000000241314 035 $a(EBL)3408528 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408528 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10594856 035 $a(OCoLC)923418077 035 $a(DE-B1597)683997 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791487013 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408528 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000241314 100 $a20020423d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe living and the dead $esocial dimensions of death in South Asian religions /$fedited by Liz Wilson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (226 p.) 225 0$aSUNY series in Hindu studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7914-5678-1 311 $a0-7914-5677-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Deanimating and Reanimating the Dead in Rural Sri Lanka""""The Suppression of Nuns and the Ritual Murder of Their Special Dead in Two Buddhist Monastic Texts*""; ""A Funeral to Part with the Living: ATamil Countersorcery Ritual1""; ""Dead Healers and Living Identities: Narratives of a Hindu Ghost and a Muslim Sufi in a Shared Village*""; ""Contributors""; ""Index"" 330 $aThis collection examines the social dimensions of death in South Asian religions, exploring the ritualized exchanges between the living and the dead performed by Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and other religious groups. Using ethnographic and historical tools associated with the comparative and historical study of religion, the contributors also record the voices and actions of marginalized groups?such as tribal peoples, women, and members of lower castes?who are often underrepresented in studies of South Asian deathways, which typically focus on the writings and practices of elite groups. For many religious people, death entails a journey leading to some new condition or place. As the ultimate experience of passage, it is highly ceremonial and ritualized, and those beliefs and practices associated with the moment of death itself?death-bed ceremonies, funerary rites, and rituals of mourning and of remembering?are examined here. The Living and the Dead offers historical depth, ethnographic detail, and conceptual clarity on a subject that is of immense importance in South Asian religious traditions. 410 0$aSUNY Series in Hindu Studies 606 $aDeath$xReligious aspects 606 $aFuneral rites and ceremonies$zSouth Asia 607 $aSouth Asia$xReligious life and customs 615 0$aDeath$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aFuneral rites and ceremonies 676 $a291.2/3 701 $aWilson$b Liz$0958837 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825677403321 996 $aThe living and the dead$93996700 997 $aUNINA