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Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience by Gananath Obeyesekere

Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience

Gananath Obeyesekere

232 pages first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction religion informative reflective medium-paced
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The great pilgrimage center of southeastern Sri Lanka, Kataragama, has become in recent years the spiritual home of a new class of Hindu-Buddhist religious devotees. These ecstatic priests and priestesses invariably display long locks of matted ha...

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