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God Inside-Out - Siva's Game of Dice (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R2,911
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God Inside-Out - Siva's Game of Dice (Paperback, New): Don Handelman, David Shulman

God Inside-Out - Siva's Game of Dice (Paperback, New)

Don Handelman, David Shulman

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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 maintain that Siva is perpetually absorbed in this game, which is recreated in innumerable stories, poems, paintings, and sculptural carvings. This notion of the god at play, argue Handelman and Shulman, is one of the most central and expressive veins in the metaphysics elaborated through the centuries, in many idioms and modes, around the god.
The book comprises three interlocking essays; the first presents the dice-game proper, in the light of the texts and visual depictions the authors have collected. The second and third chapters take up two mythic "sequels" to the game. Based on their analysis of these sequels, the authors argue that notions of "asceticism" so frequently associated with Siva, with Yoga, and with Hindu religion are, in fact, foreign to Hinduism's inherent logic as reflected in Siva's game of dice. They suggest an alternative reading of this set of practices and ideas, providing startling new insights into Hindu mythology and the major poetic texts from the classical Sanskrit tradition.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 1997
First published: June 1997
Authors: Don Handelman (Professor of Anthropology) • David Shulman (Professor of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion)
Dimensions: 209 x 139 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-510845-3
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Hinduism
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Theology > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Theology > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Hinduism
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LSN: 0-19-510845-0
Barcode: 9780195108453

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