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Wonder in South Asia: Histories, Aesthetics, Ethics.

Wonder in South Asia: Histories, Aesthetics, Ethics.

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著者・編者Srinivas, Tulasi (ed.),
シリーズ (SUNY series in Religious Studies)
出版社 (State University of New York Press, US)
出版年月2024
ページ数366 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<A04-16770>

解説

A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.

The experience of wonder-encompassing awe, bewilderment, curiosity, excitement, fear, dread, mystery, perplexity, reverence, surprise, and supplication-and the ineffable quality of that which is wondrous have been entwined in religion and human experience. Yet strangely, wonder in non-western societies, including South Asia, has rarely been acknowledged or understood. This groundbreaking volume brings together historians and ethnographers of South Asia, including leading and emerging scholars, to consider the place and meaning of wonder in such varied joyful, tense, and creative sites and moments as Sufi music performances in Gujarat, Tamil graveyard processions, trans women's charitable practices, Kipling's Orientalist tales, village Kuchipudi dance performances, and Rajasthani healing shrines. Offering a synthetic and scholarly reading of wonder that speaks to the political, aesthetic, and ethical worlds of South Asia, these essays redefine the nature and meaning of wonder and its worlds. Taken together, they provide an invaluable research tool for those in the fields of Asian religion, religion in context, and South Asian religions in particular.