Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1 Temples, Localities, and Deities
5. 1 A Divine Dust-Up 25
6. 2 Your Friendly, Neighborhood Bhairava 49
7. 3 This Is a Place Where Shakti Dances 69
8. Part 2 Ritual and Possession Performances
9. 4 Insistence, Persistence, and Resistance in Tamil Hindu Rituals to Call the Dead 95
10. 5 Developing Danda 119
11. 6 Feral Gods 141
12. Part 3 Pilgrimage and Festival Practices
13. 7 The Changing Flavors of Gogaji Worship 165
14. 8 Sleep Sweetly, Fierce Goddess 191
15. 9 The Sweetening of Bhairav as a Merchants’ Miracle Deity 215
16. Part 4 Narrative and Visual Spaces
17. 10 Envisioning Kameshvari and the Mahavidyas in Women’s Nam of the Kamakhya Temple and Pilgrimage Site 241
18. 11 Sanskritizing and Saffronizing the Rabies Goddess 261
19. 12 Sensational Poetics 283
20. 13 Kali in a Time of Hurt Sentiments 309
21. Contributors 333
22. Index 339