Hindu Deities in the Flesh: 'Hot' Emotions, Sensual Interactions, and (Syn)aesthetic Blends
In Hindu practices and narratives, otherworldly and nonhuman beings appear with nonhuman and otherworldly bodies and feelings. In this article, I draw from ethnographic fieldwork as well as from philology to outline the widespread perception of divine presence or emotion as “heat”. This embodied ide...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI
2022
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Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 11 |
| Further subjects: | B
Synesthesia
B AESTHETICS OF RELIGION B Bhakti B Emotion B Hindu mythology B Embodiment B Conceptual Metaphor B cognitive blending |
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