George Pati
Biographic Data
| ID | 4897582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Pati |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Pati |
| SIGNATURE | PATI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Valparaiso University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4882-8857 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Performance, Procession, and Place: The Production of Sacredness During the Uthra Śīvēli Festival at Śrī Vallabha Temple, Kerala
This study examines the dynamics of embodiment, spatiality, and sacredness during the Uthra Śīvēli festival at Śrī Vallabha Temple, Kerala. Employing a multidisciplinary approach that integrates ethnographic fieldwork and theoretical analysis, it explores how rituals, processions, and performances create sacred spaces, transforming the urban landscape of Thiruvalla into a ‘religioscape’. The essay argues that the embodied interactions among devot…
Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience By Kathryn R. Barush
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body
Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body
Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions: Subtle Bodies, Spatial Bodies
The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film: Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness. Edited by Diana Dimitrova
(excerpt) This exceptionally insightful volume, The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film: Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness, is a compendium of essays that demonstrate various aspects of ‘otherness’ and ‘othering’ as being continuously produced and challenged in a variety of spaces. Dimitrova begins the volume by introducing the term ‘otherism’ to denote the universal discourse of ‘otherness and othering’ (p. 7), and the stereo…
Temple and Human Bodies: Representing Hinduism
The Blindness of Insight: Essays on Caste in Modern India, by Dilip M. Menon
The Blindness of Insight: Essays on Caste in Modern India, by Dilip M. Menon. Pondicherry: Navayana Publications, 2006. 168 pp., $25.00. ISBN 81-89059-07-6 (pb)
Body as Sacred Space in Kalaricikitsa of Kerala, South India
Kalaricikitsa, a unique traditional medicinal praxis, practised in a kalari or arena where young men and women learn kalarippayattu, martial arts of Kerala, employs various massage therapies for healing and wellness in which the human body plays a significant role. Though the human body has been a subject of study in various disciplines including philosophy, anthropology, sociology, history, and religion, scholars of religion have not explored ka…
Kalari and Kalarippayattu of Kerala, South India: Nexus of the celestial, the corporeal, and the terrestrial
Kalari is an arena that imparts a whole body of knowledge in Kerala, south India, including kalarippayattu (martial arts). In recent times, these centers have been exclusively referred to as cultural performance centers, corroding the intrinsic value and diluting the religious essence of such places and praxis. This essay explores kalari and kalarippayattu from a Hindu religious perspective and suggests that kalari and kalarippayattu embody the c…
New Focus on Hindu Studies – By Arvind Sharma
Temple and Human Bodies: Representing Hinduism
Kalari and Kalarippayattu of Kerala, South India: Nexus of the celestial, the corporeal, and the terrestrial
Kalari is an arena that imparts a whole body of knowledge in Kerala, south India, including kalarippayattu (martial arts). In recent times, these centers have been exclusively referred to as cultural performance centers, corroding the intrinsic value and diluting the religious essence of such places and praxis. This essay explores kalari and kalarippayattu from a Hindu religious perspective and suggests that kalari and kalarippayattu embody the c…
New Focus on Hindu Studies – By Arvind Sharma
The Blindness of Insight: Essays on Caste in Modern India, by Dilip M. Menon
The Blindness of Insight: Essays on Caste in Modern India, by Dilip M. Menon. Pondicherry: Navayana Publications, 2006. 168 pp., $25.00. ISBN 81-89059-07-6 (pb)
Body as Sacred Space in Kalaricikitsa of Kerala, South India
Kalaricikitsa, a unique traditional medicinal praxis, practised in a kalari or arena where young men and women learn kalarippayattu, martial arts of Kerala, employs various massage therapies for healing and wellness in which the human body plays a significant role. Though the human body has been a subject of study in various disciplines including philosophy, anthropology, sociology, history, and religion, scholars of religion have not explored ka…
Kalari and Kalarippayattu of Kerala, South India: Nexus of the celestial, the corporeal, and the terrestrial
Kalari is an arena that imparts a whole body of knowledge in Kerala, south India, including kalarippayattu (martial arts). In recent times, these centers have been exclusively referred to as cultural performance centers, corroding the intrinsic value and diluting the religious essence of such places and praxis. This essay explores kalari and kalarippayattu from a Hindu religious perspective and suggests that kalari and kalarippayattu embody the c…
Temple and Human Bodies: Representing Hinduism
The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film: Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness. Edited by Diana Dimitrova
(excerpt) This exceptionally insightful volume, The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film: Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness, is a compendium of essays that demonstrate various aspects of ‘otherness’ and ‘othering’ as being continuously produced and challenged in a variety of spaces. Dimitrova begins the volume by introducing the term ‘otherism’ to denote the universal discourse of ‘otherness and othering’ (p. 7), and the stereo…
Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions: Subtle Bodies, Spatial Bodies
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body
Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body
Performance, Procession, and Place: The Production of Sacredness During the Uthra Śīvēli Festival at Śrī Vallabha Temple, Kerala
This study examines the dynamics of embodiment, spatiality, and sacredness during the Uthra Śīvēli festival at Śrī Vallabha Temple, Kerala. Employing a multidisciplinary approach that integrates ethnographic fieldwork and theoretical analysis, it explores how rituals, processions, and performances create sacred spaces, transforming the urban landscape of Thiruvalla into a ‘religioscape’. The essay argues that the embodied interactions among devot…
Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience By Kathryn R. Barush
History (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Hinduism (4 works) · History (4 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (4 works)