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![Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience by Gananath Obeyesekere](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBd3czdUE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--e899ebbf653d82fea2238e26719a881e2a8408ae/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Medusa's%20Hair-%20An%20Essay%20on%20Personal%20Symbols%20and%20Religious%20Experience.jpg)
232 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226616018
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 15 September 1984
Description
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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232 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226616018
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 15 September 1984
Description
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...