Transgressive Sacrality

Elizabeth Chalier-Visuvalingam and Sunthar Visuvalingam

•  Transgressive Sacrality in the Hindu Tradition (1980 onwards)

  • Assembly of the World's Religions — seminal paper (1984) [viewed x since 10 March 2007] - Spanish

  • Prospectus for international inter-disciplinary conference (1985)

  • Annual South Asia Conference at Univ. of Wisconsin (Madison) panels (1986)

  • Harvard Theological Review / Journal of American Academy of Religions - Part I (1992)

  • Transgressive Sacrality in Hinduism and the World Religions (1991 onwards)    

• The Semiotics of Transgression

  • Knowing the Mother: (Indian) Oedipus debunks the psychoanalytic myth (1980)
  • The Hermeneutics of Ganesha: Psychoanalysis, Hindu wisdom and transgressive sacrality (2003-04)
  • Perverse Humor of the Infantile Vidûshaka: Psychoanalysis, Criminal Law and Sacrificial Dharma
  • To laugh or not to laugh? Exploding Lévi-Strauss' Repressed Laughter (1982)
  • Bhîshma and Ambâ: Death and Sexuality in the Mahâbhârata (1982)
  • Are Tamil Temple Myths Really Tamil? (1987) - see abstract

• Transgressive Sacrality of the Dîkshita:
  Sacrifice, Bhakti and Criminality in Hindu Tradition (1988)

  • Divine purity and demoniac power: a semiotic definition of transgressive sacrality (notes)

  • The royal murder of the brahman(ized) Dîkshita: the inner conflict of Man

  • Incestuous marriage and embryogonic death in the folk-cult of Kâttavarâyan

  • Criminal gods and demon devotees: sacrifice, bhakti and terror

• Le sens de l'humour chez Abhinavagupta (1989, in French)

• Buddhism in Cultural Perspective (May 1991, Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum)

• Between Srinagar and Benares: Kashmir's Contribution towards a Synthesis of Indian Culture (1991)

• Heresy and Religious Change in Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam (1992)

• Transgressive Sacrality in the Jewish Tradition (1991) - collective volume   

• Between Mecca and Banaras: Towards an Acculturation Model of Hindu-Muslim Relations (1992)

  • Death and Sexuality in Hinduism and Islam: The marriage of Lât Bhairõ and Ghâzî Miyã (1992)

  • Hindu-Muslim Conflict in Colonial Banaras: From the Lât Bhairõ Riots of 1809 to the all-Banaras 'Gandhian' Civil Disobedience of 1811  (1991) 

  • Bhairava in Benares: Negotiating sacred spaces and religious identities (2002-04)

  • Divide, Rule and Unify: Religious Dualism and the Dialectics of Human Violence

• Between Jerusalem and Banaras: Union and Unity in Hinduism and Judaism (1992)

•  Divide, Rule and Unify: Religious Dualism and the Dialectics of Human Violence

• Diana: Princess, Saint or Transgressor? Archaic Sacrifice and the Modern Media (1997)

Elizabeth on Bhairava (the Indian Dionysos):

• Bhairava in Benares

  • Adepts of Bhairava in the Hindu Tradition [1984]
  • Bhairava, Policeman-Magistrate (Kotwâl) of Banaras (1986)

  • Bhairava in Benares: Negotiating sacred spaces and religious identities (2002-04)

  • The Marriage of Lat Bhairava: The Untold Tale of Sex and Violence in Hinduism

• Bhairava's Royal Brahmanicide and the Problem of the Mahâbrâhmana (1989)   

  • Introduction - Preliminary survey of the extent, scope and significance of Bhairava worship

  • The Origin Myth of the brahmanicide Bhairava (notes)

  • The 'Supreme Penance' of the Criminal Kâpâlika-Bhairava (notes)

  • The apollonian Vishnu and the Dionysian Bhairava: Bhakti and Initiatic Hierarchies (notes)

  • The Transgressive Fifth Head of Brahmâ and the Pâshupata Ultimate Weapon (notes)

  • The Royal Dîkshita: Arjuna's Penance and Indra's Brahmanicide (notes)

  • The Sin-Eating Bhairava: Death and Embryogony in Kâshî (notes)

  • The Khatvânga-Bhairava: Executioner, Victim and Sacrificial Stake (notes)

  • The 'Tribalizing' Ekapâda-Bhairava and Anuttara in Trika Metaphysics (notes)

  • Mitra-Varuna and the niravasita-Bhairava: the Royal Mahâbrâhmana (notes)

  • Bhairava worship Today in North India and Nepal (notes)

• Bhairava in Nepal

  • Le Roi et le Jardinier: Pachali Bhairava of Kathmandu (1990)
  • Between Veda and Tantra: Pachali Bhairava of Katmandu (Towards an Acculturation Model of Hindu-Buddhist Relations) (1991)

• Union and Unity in Hindu Tantrism (and Kabbalah)  [1990]  

• Shiva and his Manifestations (1992)  

• The King and the Pillar: New Year Festivals in the Kathmandu Valley (1992)

• Bhairava and the Goddess: Tradition, Gender and Transgression (1996)

• Bhairava in Benares: Negotiating sacred space and religious identity - (2002-004) - abstract