| Daemons Are Forever: Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium Contributor(s): White, David Gordon (Author) |
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ISBN: 022669240X ISBN-13: 9780226692401 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $113.85 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Buddhism - History - Religion | Hinduism - History - History | Asia - India & South Asia |
| Dewey: 133.420 |
| LCCN: 2020026851 |
| Series: Silk Roads |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.40 lbs) 360 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Buddhist - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, D mons Are Forever is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and protean spirit beings--d mons--and an account of exchanges, among human populations, of the science of spirit beings: d monology. Since the time of the Indo-European migrations, and especially following the opening of the Silk Road, a common d monological vernacular has been shared among populations ranging from East and South Asia to Northern Europe. In this virtuoso work of historical sleuthing, David Gordon White recovers the trajectories of both the "inner demons" cohabiting the bodies of their human hosts and the "outer d mons" that those same humans recognized each time they encountered them in their enchanted haunts: sylvan pools, sites of geothermal eruptions, and dark forest groves. Along the way, he invites his readers to reconsider the potential and promise of the historical method in religious studies, suggesting that a "connected histories" approach to Eurasian d monology may serve as a model for restoring history to its proper place at the heart of the discipline of the history of religions. |
Contributor Bio(s): White, David Gordon: - David Gordon White is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of several books, including The Alchemical Body, Kiss of the Yogini, and Sinister Yogis, all published by the University of Chicago Press. |