Divinizing in South Asian Traditions

Diana Dimitrova is Professor of Hinduism and South Asian religions at the University of Montreal. She is the author of Western Tradition and Naturalistic Hindi Theatre (2004), Gender, Religion and Modern Hindi Drama (2008), and Hinduism and Hindi Theater (2016). She is also the editor of Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia (2010), The Other in South Asian religion, literature and film: Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness (2014), and the co-editor of Imagining Indianness: Cultural Identity and Literature (2017).Tatiana Oranskaia is Professor (retired) in the Department of Culture and History of India and Tibet, Asien-Afrika-Institut, University of Hamburg. Among her numerous publications are Pronominal Clitics in Indo-Iranian Languages (1991, in Russian); Goddesses, Heroines and Lady-Rulers in Asia and Africa (2010, ed. with B. Schuler, in German); ‘Impure Languages’: Linguistic and Literary Hybridity in Contemporary Cultures (2015, ed. with R. K. Agnihotri and C. Benthien).

• Introduction, Diana Dimitrova 1. The Abducted Male: Sexual Conquest, Lineage and Divinity in the Narratives of Pradyumna and Aniruddha, Christopher Austin 2. From Playmate to Guru: Poetry, Theology, and Practice in Early Tamil Śaiva Siddhānta, Anne Monius 3. The Recasting of Krishna’s Childhood Narrative in the Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa to Include the Goddess Radha, André Couture 4. From Warrior Queen to Shiva’s Consort to Political Pawn: The Genesis and Development of a Local Goddess in Madurai, Gita Pai 5. A Bundela Prince Who Became a Deity: Strands of Divinizing, Tatiana Oranskaia 6. Divinizing „on demand"? Kanyā pūjā in Himachal Pradesh, North India, Brigitte Luchesi 7. Divinizing in the Radhasoami Tradition: Mythologizing the Divine "Other", Diana Dimitrova 8. Movements, Miracles, and Mysticism: Apotheosis of Sree Narayana Guru of Early Twentieth Century Kerala, George Pati

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