Following the Pir: Shared Devotion in South India is an ethnographic study of the religious life of a village called Gugud[dotbelow]u in Andhra Pradesh. It focuses on the public event of Muharram in Gugud[dotbelow]u which takes on a strikingly-different color than Muharram as it…
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The Bhagavadgītā is an episode in the Mahābhārata when the climactic battle is about to begin. Here, Arjuna refuses to fight, and it is Krsna's counsel that will finally convince him. The issue of Arjuna's transformation has recently attracted some scholarly comment, but most sc…
This dissertation establishes a theoretical framework to reexamine the often neglected evidence of Jewish culture in North Africa from the 2nd-6th centuries C.E. My application of a distinct methodological framework to material evidence for, Jews in North Africa creates a novel …
This study isolates a set of ideas from the large corpus of information on possession and unmāda in Indian literature and culture. I trace the history of the concept of unmāda from the Āyurvedic texts (ca. 3rd–7th centuries C.E.), where it is an undesirable condition, to the lat…
The author contends that the mother and child depicted by Europe's venerated Black Madonna are descended from the image worshipped by druids on the same grounds where the great cathedral of Chartres was built.