Transgressive Sacrality

Elizabeth Chalier-Visuvalingam and Sunthar Visuvalingam

Transgressive Sacrality

• Transgressive Sacrality in the Hindu Tradition (1980 onwards)

• Assembly of the World's Religions — seminal paper (1984) Notice: Undefined index: Sunthar Visuvalingam - Transgressive Sacrality in Hindu Tradition in D:\Hosting\8558261\html\mainpages.php on line 183 [ viewed 0x 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

Miscellaneous

• 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) [ viewed 990x since 02 July 2009]

• 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)

Miscellaneous

• 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