Religions of the east/
edited by Stephen Hunt
- Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.
- xxvii, 513 p. ; 25 cm.
- (Library of essays on sexuality and religion) .
Concerning Kamasutras : challenging narratives of history and sexuality / Jyoti Puri -- The cult of the Earth Goddess among the Magar of Nepal / Marie Lecomte-Tilouine -- Women in Honglou meng : prescriptions of purity in the femininity of Qing Dynasty China / Louise Edwards -- Contemporary Theravāda and Zen Buddhist attitudes to human sexuality : an exercise in comparative ethics / Michel Clasquin-Johnson -- Sexuality : the Chinese and the Judeo-Christian traditions in Hong Kong / Adolf K.T. Tsang -- Singing the glory of asceticism : devotion of asceticism in Jainism / John E. Cort -- Asceticism and sexuality in the mythology of Śiva, part II / Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty -- Temple girls of medieval Karnataka / Aloka Parasher and Usha Naik -- Kumari or virgin worship in Kathmandu Valley / M.R. Allen -- Social consequences of marrying Viṣṇu Nārāyaṇa : primary marriage among the Newars of Kathmandu Valley / Anne Vergati -- Abductions and the constellation of a Hindu communal bloc in Bengal of the 1920s / P.K. Dutta -- Women, sexuality and enlightenment : Kankyo no tomo / Rajyashree Pandey -- Re-imagining the divine in Sikhism / Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh -- The power to pollute and the power to preserve : perceptions of female power in a Hindu village / Catherine Thompson -- Lustful women, elusive lovers : identifying males as objects of female desire / Prem Chowdhry -- Not this, not that : the Hijras of India and the cultural politics of sexuality / Vinay Lal -- "Like a city ablaze" : the third sex and the creation of sexuality in Jain religious literature / Leonard Zwilling and Michael J. Sweet -- A comparative analysis of Hijras and drag queens : the subversive possiblities and limits of parading effeminacy and negotiating masculinity / Sandeep Bakshi -- Transsexualism, gender, and anxiety in traditional India / Robert P. Goldman -- Ambiguous sexuality : imagery and interpretation in Tantric Buddhism / Roger R. Jackson.