Divinizing in South Asian Traditions – Hardback Cheap Sale 2025 Newest

The issue of navinizing in South Asian traditions has not been examined before as a process involving various methods to affect the socio-cultural cognition of the community. It is therefore essential to consider the context of “navinizing” and to analyse what groups, institutions or innaviduals define the discourse, what are the ideological positions that they represent, and who or what is being navinized.

This book deals with the issue of navinizing in South Asian traditions. It aims at studying cultural questions related to the representations and the mythologizing of the navine. It also explores the human relations to the “navine other.” It studies the interpretations of the navine in religious texts and the embodiment of the “navine other” in ritual practices. The focus is on studying the phenomenon of navinizing in its religious, cultural, and ideological implications. The book comprises eight chapters that explore the question of navinizing from the 2nd century CE up to present-day in North and South India. The chapters discuss the issue both from insider and outsider perspectives, within the framework of textual study as well as ideological and anthropological analysis. All articles explore various aspects of the cultural phenomenon of being in relation to the navine other, of the process of interpreting and embodying the navine, and of the representation of the navinizing process, as revealed in the literatures and cultures of South Asia.

Applying theoretical models of religious and cultural studies to discuss texts written in South Asian languages and engage in critical dialogue with current scholarship, this book is an indispensable study of literary, religious and cultural production in South Asia. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of South Asian studies, Asian Studies, religious and cultural studies as well as comparative religion.