The Living and the Dead : Social Dimensions of Death in South Asian Religions.

Intro -- The Living and the Dead -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Transcription -- Introduction:Passing On: The Social Life of Death in South Asian Religions -- 1. Ashes to Nectar:Death and Regeneration among the Rasa Siddhas and Nåth Siddhas* -- 2. Human Torches of Enlightenment:Autocremation and Spontaneous Combustion as Marks of Sanctity in South Asian Buddhism -- 3. When a Wife Dies First: The M¥sivåyanam and a Female Brahman Ritualist in Coastal Andhra -- 4. Return to Tears: Musical Mourning,Emotion, and Religious Reform inTwo South Asian Minority Communities -- 5. Deanimating and Reanimating the Dead in Rural Sri Lanka -- 6. The Suppression of Nuns and the Ritual Murder of Their Special Dead in Two Buddhist Monastic Texts* -- 7. A Funeral to Part with the Living:ATamil Countersorcery Ritual -- 8. Dead Healers and Living Identities:Narratives of a Hindu Ghost and a Muslim Sufi in a Shared Village -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Explores the social treatment of death in South Asian religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and other traditions. Includes material on women and marginalized groups.

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