
Refiguring the Body
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Barbara A. Holdrege is Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the South Asian Studies Committee at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her books include Bhakti and Embodiment: Fashioning Divine Bodies and Devotional Bodies in K¿¿¿¿ Bhakti and Veda and Torah: Transcending the Textuality of Scripture, also published by SUNY Press. Karen Pechilis is NEH Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Comparative Religion Department at Drew University. Her books include Interpreting Devotion: The Poetry and Legacy of a Female Bhakti Saint of India and The Embodiment of Bhakti.
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Introduction: Body Matters in South Asia
Barbara A. Holdrege
Part I. Material Bodies, Embodied Selves, and Perfected Embodiments
1. Perfected Embodiment: A Buddhist-Inspired Challenge to Contemporary Theories of the Body
Michael Radich
2. Body, Self, and Embodiment in the Sanskrit Classics of Ayurveda
Anthony Cerulli
3. Bodily Gestures and Embodied Awareness: Mudra as the Bodily Seal of Being in the Trika Saivism of Kashmir
Kerry Martin Skora
4. Bodied, Embodied, and Reflective Selves: Theorizing Performative Selfhood in South Indian Performance
Harshita Mruthinti Kamath
Part II. Divine Bodies and Devotional Bodies
5. Observations on the Bodies of the Gods in the Mahabharata
Kendall Busse
6. Bhakti and Embodiment: Bodies of Devotion and Bodies of Bliss in K¿¿¿a Bhakti
Barbara A. Holdrege
7. To Body or Not to Body: Repulsion, Wonder, and the Tamil Saint Karaikkal Ammaiyar
Karen Pechilis
8. Bodies of Desire, Bodies of Lament: Marking Emotion in a South Indian Vai¿¿ava Messenger Poem
Steven P. Hopkins
Part III. Gendered and Engendering Bodies
9. Defining Women's Bodies in Indian Buddhist Monastic Literature
Carol S. Anderson
10. Murderer, Saint, and Midwife: The Gendered Logic of Engendering in Buddhist Narratives of A¿gulimala's Conversion
Liz Wilson
11. Fruitful Austerity: Paradigms of Embodiment in Hindu Women's Vrat Performances
Tracy Pintchman
Afterword: Bodies of Knowledge
Karen Pechilis
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