Fred Clothey's The Many Faces of Murukan, Mouton, 1978, is a scholarly study. Its strength is that it is a sustained academic treatment of the South Indian deity Murukan across his many regional and historical forms, drawing on both textual and field material. Its limit is the ordinary one for a single scholarly synthesis now nearly five decades old: later scholarship on Tamil religion has continued to build on and in places revise its account.
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Fred W. Clothey's The Many Faces of Murukan, published by Mouton in 1978, the top tier reflecting a sustained academic treatment of the South Indian deity Murukan across his many regional and historical forms, drawing on both textual and field material. Its limit is the ordinary one for a single scholarly synthesis now nearly five decades old: later scholarship on Tamil religion has continued to build on and in places revise its account. NotesScholarly study of the history and meaning of the South Indian deity Murukan, Mouton, 1978.
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AuthorFred W. Clothey
PublisherMouton
Publication Year1978
Source Typeacademic monograph
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Source The Many Faces of Murukan: The History and Meaning of a South Indian GodFred W. Clothey
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