著者名：

Knipe, David M.

出版元：

Motilal

冊数：

xv,325p. photos.

刊行年：

2019

ISBN：

9788120842441

Hinduism -- Death -- Sapindikarana -- Funerary rituals

This book comprises a smorgasboard of essays on death, dying, funeral rituals, ancestor ceremonies, ghosts, and other subjects in the realm of Mrityu, the god of Death, and aparam, the Sanskrit and Telugu word for human End Time. The focus stretches from the Rg Veda to present-day Hinduism, textual and non-textual.

Introduction
1 Sapiṇḍīkaraṇa : the Hindu rite of entry into heaven
2 Śrāddha
3 When a wife dies first : the mūsivāyanam and a female Brahman ritualist in coastal Andhra
4 Constructing a provisional body for the preta in Hindu funerals
5 Zur rolle des "provisorischen Körpers" für den Verstorbenen in hinduistichen Bestattungen
6 Hindu eschatology
7 Becoming Agni
8 Sowing for the grim reaper : gardens of the preta
9 Make that sesame on rice, please! : Appetites of the dead in Hinduism
10 Deities, devotion, and "the drop edge of yonder"
11 Jīrṇa : reflections of Andhra āhitāgnis on old age and dying
12 Bhūta
13 Hindu ancestor rituals
14 Searching beneath symbols : hidden agendas regarding death
15 Self-sacrifice
16 Frightening ghosts, affable ghosts
17 A review of John Bowker : The meanings of death
18 A review of Matthew Sayers : Feeding the dead : ancestor worship in ancient India

No.

51167

価格：

4,499円