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Religions of the east/ edited by Stephen Hunt

Contributor(s): Hunt, Stephen, edMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: (Library of essays on sexuality and religion)Publication details: Farnham: Ashgate, 2010Description: xxvii, 513 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780754629221Subject(s): Sex--Religious aspects -- AsiaDDC classification: 201.7095

Contents:

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	201.7095 EDI/R (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P10931

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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.

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