Gerrit Lange
Biographic Data
| ID | 1111633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerrit Lange |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerrit |
| FAMILY NAME | Lange |
| SIGNATURE | LANGE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Philipps University of Marburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5674-9633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Drinking, Drunken with, and Drowning in Love
South Asian Sufi traditions emerged from a milieu deeply colored by both Islamic and non-Islamic traditions, by Persian and Arabic literatures as well as by texts in Sanskrit and in Indian vernaculars. The qawwālī songs performed at the shrines of Sufi saints, such as the dargah of Amir Khusrau (d. 1325 CE) in Delhi, abound with synesthetic metaphors for divine love as dissolving like a drop in the ocean, as “sweetness” or “intoxication” ( madwa …
A Conversation on Aesthetics and Affects of Power
In May 2022 we held a workshop at the University of Erfurt titled Aesthetics and Affects of Power in the Context of Religion. The workshop was born out of a shared personal interest in the implicit, unconscious, material, and embodied negotiations of power, specifically as they take place in religious fields and discourses of religious participation. We observed that religious practices and discourses have historically taken, and continue to take…
Divine Śakti and Human Power Relations
Concepts such as power, affect, intensity, and attention tend to be depicted as “flowing,” “channeled,” or “evoked.” Schaefer, in his response, speaks of materialized, embodied affects as “singeing
Hindu Deities in the Flesh
In Hindu practices and narratives, otherworldly and nonhuman beings appear with nonhuman and otherworldly bodies and feelings. In this article, I draw from ethnographic fieldwork as well as from philology to outline the widespread perception of divine presence or emotion as "heat". This embodied idea or multi-sensual "aesthetic blend", as I propose to call it, can be found in very diverse cultural and historical traditions of South Asia. It is mo…
Cobra Deities and Divine Cobras
In South Asia, cobras are the animals most dangerous to humans-as humans are to cobras. Paradoxically, one threat to cobras is their worship by feeding them milk, which is harmful to them, but religiously prescribed as an act of love and tenderness towards a deity. Across cultural and religious contexts, the Nāgas, mostly cobra-shaped beings, are prominent among Hindu and Buddhist deities. Are they seen as animals? Doing ethnographic fieldwork on…
Western Himalayan N?gs as Guardians of Water Resources
My ethnographic research focuses on the N?gs, which are cobra-shaped deities and guardians of water sources, to exemplify how religion and ecology relate to each other in the Indian Western Himalayas. Ethnography has much to contribute to environmental research: Hydrological degradation of the Ganges (alias mother Gang?), erosion of mountains (alias goddess Nand? or the N?g deity V?suki), and deforestation are not merely physical phenomena. They …
Hindu Deities in the Flesh
In Hindu practices and narratives, otherworldly and nonhuman beings appear with nonhuman and otherworldly bodies and feelings. In this article, I draw from ethnographic fieldwork as well as from philology to outline the widespread perception of divine presence or emotion as "heat". This embodied idea or multi-sensual "aesthetic blend", as I propose to call it, can be found in very diverse cultural and historical traditions of South Asia. It is mo…
Cobra Deities and Divine Cobras
In South Asia, cobras are the animals most dangerous to humans-as humans are to cobras. Paradoxically, one threat to cobras is their worship by feeding them milk, which is harmful to them, but religiously prescribed as an act of love and tenderness towards a deity. Across cultural and religious contexts, the Nāgas, mostly cobra-shaped beings, are prominent among Hindu and Buddhist deities. Are they seen as animals? Doing ethnographic fieldwork on…
Western Himalayan N?gs as Guardians of Water Resources
My ethnographic research focuses on the N?gs, which are cobra-shaped deities and guardians of water sources, to exemplify how religion and ecology relate to each other in the Indian Western Himalayas. Ethnography has much to contribute to environmental research: Hydrological degradation of the Ganges (alias mother Gang?), erosion of mountains (alias goddess Nand? or the N?g deity V?suki), and deforestation are not merely physical phenomena. They …
Western Himalayan N?gs as Guardians of Water Resources
My ethnographic research focuses on the N?gs, which are cobra-shaped deities and guardians of water sources, to exemplify how religion and ecology relate to each other in the Indian Western Himalayas. Ethnography has much to contribute to environmental research: Hydrological degradation of the Ganges (alias mother Gang?), erosion of mountains (alias goddess Nand? or the N?g deity V?suki), and deforestation are not merely physical phenomena. They …
Cobra Deities and Divine Cobras
In South Asia, cobras are the animals most dangerous to humans-as humans are to cobras. Paradoxically, one threat to cobras is their worship by feeding them milk, which is harmful to them, but religiously prescribed as an act of love and tenderness towards a deity. Across cultural and religious contexts, the Nāgas, mostly cobra-shaped beings, are prominent among Hindu and Buddhist deities. Are they seen as animals? Doing ethnographic fieldwork on…
Hindu Deities in the Flesh
In Hindu practices and narratives, otherworldly and nonhuman beings appear with nonhuman and otherworldly bodies and feelings. In this article, I draw from ethnographic fieldwork as well as from philology to outline the widespread perception of divine presence or emotion as "heat". This embodied idea or multi-sensual "aesthetic blend", as I propose to call it, can be found in very diverse cultural and historical traditions of South Asia. It is mo…
Divine Śakti and Human Power Relations
Concepts such as power, affect, intensity, and attention tend to be depicted as “flowing,” “channeled,” or “evoked.” Schaefer, in his response, speaks of materialized, embodied affects as “singeing
A Conversation on Aesthetics and Affects of Power
In May 2022 we held a workshop at the University of Erfurt titled Aesthetics and Affects of Power in the Context of Religion. The workshop was born out of a shared personal interest in the implicit, unconscious, material, and embodied negotiations of power, specifically as they take place in religious fields and discourses of religious participation. We observed that religious practices and discourses have historically taken, and continue to take…
Drinking, Drunken with, and Drowning in Love
South Asian Sufi traditions emerged from a milieu deeply colored by both Islamic and non-Islamic traditions, by Persian and Arabic literatures as well as by texts in Sanskrit and in Indian vernaculars. The qawwālī songs performed at the shrines of Sufi saints, such as the dargah of Amir Khusrau (d. 1325 CE) in Delhi, abound with synesthetic metaphors for divine love as dissolving like a drop in the ocean, as “sweetness” or “intoxication” ( madwa …
Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Hinduism (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works)