Weiss, Richard S: Recipes for Immortality

Name: Weiss, Richard S: Recipes for Immortality
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 978-0-19-533523-1
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Healing, Religion, and Community in South India

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In this book, Weiss seeks to illuminate the present success of traditional doctors by examining the ways that siddha practitioners in Tamil South India have won the trust and patronage of patients. They do this, he shows, by offering affiliation to a timeless and pure community, the fantasy of a Tamil utopia, and even the prospect of immortality.

ISBN: 978-0-19-533523-1

GTIN: 9780195335231

Über den Autor Weiss, Richard S

Richard Weiss is Senior Lecturer of South Asian Religions, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. He was trained as a teacher in the Peace Corps in Swaziland, Southern Africa, and as a scholar at the University of Chicago. His research interests and publications focus on Tamil religion and culture from the twelfth century to the present. He is currently working on a history of Shaiva community in South India and Sri Lanka.