Wonder in South Asia
Wonder in South Asia

Author: Tulasi Srinivas

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2023-11-01

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1438495293

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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.

Wonder-Tales of South Asia
Wonder-Tales of South Asia

Author: Simon Digby

Publisher:

Published: 2006-08-10

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13:

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Wonder-Tales of South Asia contains translations that Simon Digby has made over the years of tales of wonder, with miraculous or fantastic elements, from four different Asian languages.

Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia
Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia

Author: Natasha Eaton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-14

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1000262553

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Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia questions what are ideas of vertiginous collecting, art-making and museums as expanded fields, including wonder houses and missionary museums (or museobuses) in Britain and South Asia. If the historiography of British India has privileged photography and the 'Imperial Picturesque', the emphasis here is on the formation of a creole modernity, one that considers the relationship between art and labour, including pearlescence and pearl fishing in Sri Lanka, and the iconoclastic/fetish debates and forms of collecting amongst missionaries. Eaton explores these themes alongside the genealogies and modernities of white(ness) in contemporary curating and amateur female practice, and how the museobus or museum as a unique object has informed the work of contemporary artist group Raqs Media Collective. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Asian history, and imperial and colonial history.

Wonder
Wonder

Author: Sophia Vasalou

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2015-04-15

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1438455542

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Wonder has been celebrated as the quintessential passion of childhood. From the earliest stages of our intellectual history, it has been acclaimed as the driving force of inquiry and the prime passion of thought. Yet for an emotion acknowledged so widely for the multiple roles it plays in our lives, wonder has led a singularly shadowy existence in recent reflections. Philosophers have largely passed it over in silence; emotion theorists have shunned it as a case that sits awkwardly within their analytical frameworks. So what is wonder, and why does it matter? In this book, Sophia Vasalou sketches a "grammar" of wonder that pursues the complexities of wonder as an emotional experience that has carved colorful tracks through our language and our intellectual history, not only in philosophy and science but also in art and religious experience. A richer grammar of wonder and broader window into its past can give us the tools we need for thinking more insightfully about wonder, and for reflecting on the place it should occupy within our emotional lives.

Wonder in South Asia
Wonder in South Asia

Author: Tulasi Srinivas

Publisher:

Published: 2024-05-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781438495279

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A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.

Dialogue in Early South Asian Religions
Dialogue in Early South Asian Religions

Author: Dr Brian Black

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1409440125

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Dialogue between characters is an important feature of South Asian religious literature: entire narratives are often presented as a dialogue between two or more individuals, or the narrative or discourse is presented as a series of embedded conversations from different times and places. Including some of the most established scholars of South Asian religious texts, this book examines the use of dialogue in early South Asian texts with an interdisciplinary approach that crosses traditional boundaries between religious traditions. The contributors shed new light on the cultural ideas and practices within religious traditions, as well presenting an understanding of a range of dynamics - from hostile and competitive to engaged and collaborative. This book is the first to explore the literary dimensions of dialogue in South Asian religious sources, helping to reframe the study of other literary traditions around the world.

Fierce Enigmas
Fierce Enigmas

Author: Srinath Raghavan

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2018-10-16

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 1541698819

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The two-hundred-year history of the United States' involvement in South Asia -- the key to understanding contemporary American policy in the region South Asia looms large in American foreign policy. Over the past two decades, we have spent billions of dollars and thousands of human lives in the region, to seemingly little effect. As Srinath Raghavan reveals in Fierce Enigmas, this should not surprise us. For 230 years, America's engagement with India, Afghanistan, and Pakistan has been characterized by short-term thinking and unintended consequences. Beginning with American traders in India in the eighteenth century, the region has become a locus for American efforts -- secular and religious -- to remake the world in its image. The definitive history of US involvement in South Asia, Fierce Enigmas is also a clarion call to fundamentally rethink our approach to the region.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

Author: Alison Arnold

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-25

Total Pages: 1126

ISBN-13: 1351544381

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In this volume, sixty-eight of the world's leading authorities explore and describe the wide range of musics of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Nepal and Afghanistan. Important information about history, religion, dance, theater, the visual arts and philosophy as well as their relationship to music is highlighted in seventy-six in-depth articles.

The South Asian Health Solution
The South Asian Health Solution

Author: Ronesh Sinha, MD

Publisher: Bradventures LLC

Published: 2014-01-03

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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The South Asian Health Solution is the first book to provide an ancestral health-based wellness plan culturally tailored for those of South Asian ancestry living in India, the United States and across the world – a population identified as being at the highest risk for heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and related conditions. Dr. Ronesh Sinha, an internal medicine specialist in California’s Silicon Valley, sees high risk South Asian patients and runs education and wellness programs for corporate clients. He has taken many South Asians out of the high risk, high body mass category and helped them reverse disease risk factors without medications. His comprehensive lifestyle modification approach has been validated by cutting edge medical science and the real-life success stories he profiles throughout the book.

The Wonder House
The Wonder House

Author: Justine Hardy

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 2007-04-10

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780802143129

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With her American debut, Hardy crafts an unforgettable story set in one of the most beautiful and broken places in the world, Kashmir. "Full of subtle, sensual delights"--"Daily Mail."