Historicizing Emotions: Practices and Objects in India, China, and Japan

Barbara Schuler, Dr. phil., Universität Hamburg, is a researcher in Indian Studies. She has published monographs, editions, translations, and articles on India, including “The Dynamics of Emotions in the Ritual of a Hot Goddess” in Nidan 24 (2012): 16–40.

• ContentsPrefaceList of Figures and TablesConventionsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Historicizing Asian Community-based Emotion PracticesBarbara SchulerIndia1 A House for the Nation to Remember: A Correspondence of Emotions between Jawaharlal Nehru and G. D. Birla, 1948Padma D. Maitland2 Food and Emotion: Can Emotions be Worked On and Altered in Material Ways?—A Short Research Note on South IndiaBarbara Schuler3 From Constant Yearning and Casual Bliss to Hurt Sentiments: An Emotional Shift in the Varkari Tradition (India)Irina Glushkova4 Salvation through Colorful Emotions: Aesthetics, Colorimetry, and Theology in Early Modern South AsiaKiyokazu Okita5 Loving Śiva’s Liṅga: The Changing Emotional Valences of a Beloved Image in the Tamil-Speaking Śaiva TraditionAnne E. Monius6 Contested Emotionality, Religious Icons in Ancient IndiaGérard Colas7 Giving Gifts in Pre-Modern India: The Motivation of the DonorsKatrin EinickeChina8 Seeing Suchness: Emotional and Material Means of Perceiving Reality in Chinese Buddhist Divination RitualsBeverley McGuireJapan9 When Sad is Good: Affect among Friends in and out of Japanese PicturebooksHeather BlairIndex