Religions of the East

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Contents: Introduction Part I Sexuality and Cultural Expression: Concerning kamasutras: challenging narratives of history and sexuality, Jyoti Puri The cult of the Earth Goddess among the Magar of Nepal, Marie Lecomte-Tilouine Women in Honglou meng: prescriptions of purity in the femininity of Qing dynasty China, Louise Edwards Contemporary Theravada and Zen Buddhist attitudes to human sexuality: an exercise in comparative ethics, Michel Clasquin-Johnson Sexuality the Chinese and the Judeo-Christian traditions in Hong Kong, Adolf K.T. Tsang. Part II Renunciation and Asceticism: Singing the glory of asceticism in Jainism, John E. Cort a Asceticism and sexuality in the mythology of Siva. Part II, Wendy Doniger Oa (TM)Flaherty Temple girls of medieval Karnataka, Aloka Parasher and Usha Naik Kumari or 'virgin' worship in Kathmandu valley, M.R. Allen Social consequences of marrying Visnu Narayana: primary marriage among the Newars of Kathmandu Valley, Anne Vergati. Part III Eastern Religion: Sexuality, Gender and Patriarchy: 'Abductions' and the constellation of a Hindu communal bloc in Bengal of the 1920s, P.K. Dutta Women, sexuality and enlightenment: a Kankyo no Tomoa (TM), Rajyashree Pandey Re-Imagining the divine in Sikhism, Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh The power to pollute and the power to preserve: perceptions of female power in a Hindu village, Catherine Thompson Lustful women, elusive lovers: identifying males as objects of female desire, Prem Chowdhry. Part IV Eastern Religion: Sexual Variants: Not this, not that: the hijras of India and the cultural politics of sexuality, Vinay Lal Like a city ablaze: the 3rd sex and the creation of sexuality in Jain religious literature, Leonard Zwilling and Michael J. Sweet A comparative analysis of hijras and drag queens: the subversive possibilities and limits of parading effeminacy and negotiating masculinity, Sandeep Bakshi Transsexualism, gender, and anxiety in traditional India, Robert P. Goldman Ambiguous sexuality: imagery and interpretation in Tantric Buddhism, Roger R. Jackson Name index.