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Two Masterpieces of Ku?iya??am

Heike Oberlin , David Shulman

Ku?iya??am, India’s only living traditional Sanskrit theatre, has been continually performed in Kerala for at least a thousand years. The actors and drummers create an entire world in the empty space of the stage by using spectacular costumes and make-up and by an...

Srinatha

Velcheru Narayana Rao , David Shulman

God on the Hill

Annamayya , Velcheru Narayana Rao , David Shulman

The devotional poems of Annamayya (15th century) are perhaps the most accessible and universal achievement of classical Telugu literature, one of the major literatures of pre-modern India. Annamayya effectively created and popularized a new genre, the short padam song,...

Self and Self-Transformations in the History of Religions

David Shulman , Guy G. Stroumsa

This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea of the "self" is a cultural formation like any other, and models and conceptions of the inner world of the person vary...

Dream Cultures

David Shulman , Guy G. Stroumsa

This volume offers a comparative, cross-cultural history of dreams. The essays examine a wide range of texts concerning dreams, as culled from a rich variety of religious contexts: China, India, the Americas, classical Greek and Roman antiquity, early Christianity, and...

God Inside Out

Carmel Berkson , Don Handelman , David Shulman

This book offers a new exploration of the mythology of the Hindu god Siva, who spends his time playing dice with his wife, to whom he habitually loses. The result of the game is our world, which turns the god inside-out and changes his internal composition. Hindus...

Untying the Knot

Galit Hasan-Rokem , David Shulman

This book collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of cultural perspectives and disciplines; linguists, anthropologists,...

Un si sombre espoir

David Shulman

« Un jour, ce conflit trouvera sa résolution, mais la réalité quotidienne est pratiquement insupportable. Je ne pouvais plus la tolérer en restant assis à mon bureau. Je me sens responsable des atrocités commises, en mon nom, par la moitié israélienne de l’histoire....