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Medusa's Hair An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience

Paperback • 1984 • English

Medusa's Hair An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience

By Gananath Obeyesekere

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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. The increasing popularity of these ecstatics poses a challenge not only to orthodox Sinhala Buddhism (the officia...Show more

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9780226616018

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

1984

Language

English

Original title

Medusa's Hair An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience

Format

Paperback

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