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Wonder in South Asia: Histories, Aesthetics, Ethics
Authors:
Tulasi Srinivas (editor)
ISBN:
9789395474924
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2026
Pages:
366 with 20 b/w illustrations
Size:
16 x 24 x 3 cm
Weight:
693 grams
Price:
INR
2395
2156.00
About the Book
A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.
The experience of wonder—encompassing awe, bewilderment, curiosity, excitement, fear, dread, mystery, perplexity, reverence, surprise, and supplication—and the ineffable quality of that which is wondrous have been entwined in religion and human experience. Yet strangely, wonder in non-western societies, including South Asia, has rarely been acknowledged or understood. This groundbreaking volume brings together historians and ethnographers of South Asia, including leading and emerging scholars, to consider the place and meaning of wonder in such varied joyful, tense, and creative sites and moments as Sufi music performances in Gujarat, Tamil graveyard processions, trans women’s charitable practices, Kipling’s Orientalist tales, village Kuchipudi dance performances, and Rajasthani healing shrines. Offering a synthetic and scholarly reading of wonder that speaks to the political, aesthetic, and ethical worlds of South Asia, these essays redefine the nature and meaning of wonder and its worlds. Taken together, they provide an invaluable research tool for those in the fields of Asian religion, religion in context, and South Asian religions in particular.
About the Authors
Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī
Born in Qazvin, Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī (b. 600/1204) was a Persian philosopher and scholar who was a member of the Shāfiʿī school of law. His most famous work aside from
The Rules of Logic
is
Philosophy of the Source
, a text about physics and metaphysics.
Tony Street
Tony Street is Assistant Director of Research in Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Divinity and is a Fellow of Clare Hall.
Paul Thom
Paul Thom is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Joseph E. Lowry
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