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The Mysterious Play of Kālī: An Interpretive Study of Rāmakrishna

The Mysterious Play of Kālī: An Interpretive Study of Rāmakrishna

Olson, Carl

Paperback

Series: AAR Studies in Religion, Book 56

General ReferenceLinguisticsHinduism

ISBN10: 1555403409
ISBN13: 9781555403409
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 2 1990
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
Ramakrishna was a nineteenth-century Bengali devotee of Kali, the Hindu goddess of death and destruction. He assumed the demeanor and dress of a woman, acted like a monkey, a child, a madman, and a comedian at various times during his career. Using the concept of play (lila), as both spontaneous activity and dramatic performance on behalf of Kali, Carl Olson provides a interpretive key for unlocking Ramakrishna's life and his often contradictory forms of behavior. Olson places Ramakrishna in his social and historical context, examines his relationship to women, and investigates his status as a mystery or stranger to his contemporaries.

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