Medusa's hair : an essay on personal symbols and religious experience

By:

Obeyesekere, Gananath

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago University of Chicago Press 1981Description: xiii, 217pISBN:

9780226616018 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.6 OBE

Summary: The great pilgrimage center of southeastern Sri Lanka, Kataragama, has become in recent years the spiritual home of a new class of Hindu-Buddhist religious devotees. These ecstatic priests and priestesses invariably display long locks of matted hair, and they express their devotion to the gods through fire walking, tongue-piercing, hanging on hooks, and trance-induced prophesying.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Plaksha University Library	Social Science	306.6 OBE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		003324

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The great pilgrimage center of southeastern Sri Lanka, Kataragama, has become in recent years the spiritual home of a new class of Hindu-Buddhist religious devotees. These ecstatic priests and priestesses invariably display long locks of matted hair, and they express their devotion to the gods through fire walking, tongue-piercing, hanging on hooks, and trance-induced prophesying.

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