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#BookOverview The Sabarimala Confusion - Menstruation Across Cultures: A Historical Perspective by @nkgrock

This book attempts to provide a detailed review of menstruation notions prevalent in India & in cultures from across the world

Link: amzn.to/3JMcUw4

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@nkgrock @IndicaBooks The world cultures covered in the book include Indic traditions like Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism; ancient civilisations like Greece, Rome, Mesopotamia and Egypt; and Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

@nkgrock @IndicaBooks Two themes of special focus in the book are: Impurity & Sacrality

While they are often understood as being opposed to each other, the book examines how they are treated as two sides of the same coin, when it comes to menstruation

@nkgrock @IndicaBooks This is especially true in Indic traditions and pre-Christian polytheistic traditions like Greco-Roman, Mesopotamian and Egyptian

Impurity and Sacrality complement each other to form a comprehensive worldview in these cultures

@nkgrock @IndicaBooks The book also examines how the understanding of impurity in Abrahamic religions differs from those of polytheistic cultures

As part of the examination of the sacrality attached to menstruation, a special focus has also been given to...

@nkgrock @IndicaBooks ...the deities of menstruation in polytheistic cultures and to what Ayurveda and Yoga say about this essential function in a woman’s physiology

Finally, a comparative study of menstrual notions prevalent in modernity is presented, along with a Do and Don’t dossier

@nkgrock @IndicaBooks Get your copy now: amazon.in/Sabarimala-Con…