The sense of adharma / Ariel Glucklich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glucklich, Ariel, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dharma.

Adharma (Hinduism).

Hindu symbolism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a study of the contrasting Hindu concepts of adharma (chaos) and dharma (order). The author uses a synthesis of phenomenological and anthropological approaches to study the structure of the imagination that produces such an apparently contradictory viewpoint.

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction: On Understanding Culture Through the Body; 1. Images and Symbols of Dharma; 2. The Duration of Images in Time; 3. Why Rivers Purify (And Only Bad Witches Are Ugly); 4. Dermatology and Cosmology; 5. Boundaries in Space and Time; 6. Passage to Marriage-The Dharma Agent; 7. Playing The Field: Adultery as Claim Jumping, by Wendy Doniger; 8. Thieves and Dharma in the Story Literature; 9. The Adharmic Force of Punishment (Danda); Conclusion: Back to the Body; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-259) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-774161-4

1-280-52689-0

0-19-802448-7

1-4294-0566-X

OCLC:

476015253