[INDOLOGY] Call for chapter/s - Folk Magic in Monsoon Asia

[Paolo E. Rosati]

Dear All,

I am writing because Dr Margaret Lyngdoh (University of Tartu) and I are
planning to publish a book provisionally entitled *Folk Magic at the
Religious Peripheries of Monsoon Asia: Practices, Tools, and Ecology*.

*Short description:* This volume takes an academic perspective on
alchemical, magic-shamanic, and tantric practices that are performed both
on the peripheries of acceptance and within mainstream healing and ritual
practices. The focus is ethnographic, philological, and theoretical, with
authors from diverse disciplines contributing to a multivalent framework in
which these practices manifest. Each chapter focuses on practices that are
often labelled as phenomena existing outside or at the margins of
mainstream religiosity. Both material and intangible instruments as well as
the sacred spaces associated with ritual, magic, alchemical, or shamanic
practices since the pre-modern period will be examined to demonstrate a
continuity across Monsoon Asia.

*We are particularly looking for one or two chapter proposals that
investigate/s one of the following regions:*

South India/Deccan
Sri Lanka
Orissa/Eastern India
Indonesia
Myanmar
Southern China
Mainland Southeast Asia
Central Asia/Tibet
Bengal
Western and Northwestern India

Chapters on *śākta-tantra, yoga, yantras/**maṇḍalas, cremation
grounds/cemeteries* based on *textual studies and/or art history* are very
welcome.

If you are interested, please email me a *title and an abstract (200-250
words)* at *paoloe.rosati at gmail.com <paoloe.rosati at gmail.com>* as soon as
possible. I would highly appreciate your sharing this with anyone you feel
would be suitable for the book project.

Sincerely,
Paolo

-- 
*Paolo E. Rosati*

*PhD in Asian and African Studies*
*https://uniroma1.academia.edu/paolo
<https://uniroma1.academia.edu/PaoloRosati/>**er*
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