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Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience
Medusa's Hair An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience
Author: Gananath Obeyesekere
The great pilgrimage center of southeastern Sri Lanka, Kataragama, has become in recent years the spiritual home of a new class of Hindu-Buddhist religious devotees. These ecstatic priests and priestesses invariably display long locks of matted hair, and they express their devotion to the gods through fire walking, tongue-piercing, hanging on ho...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226616001
ISBN-10: 0226616002
Pages: 252
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Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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