Charming Beauties and Frightful Beasts Non-Human Animals in South Asian Myth, Ritual, and Folklore

Fabrizio M. Ferrari is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Chester. His publications include a study of the Bauls of Bengal (Oltre il confine, dove la terra e rossa: Canti d'amore e d'estasi dei Baul del Bengala, Ariele, 2001) and an examination of the gajan festival of Bengal (Guilty Males and Proud Females: Negotiating Genders in a Bengali Festival, Seagull, 2011). He is the editor of Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia: Disease, Possession and Healing (Routledge, 2011). Thomas Dahnhardt is Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies on Mediterranean and Africa at the Universita Ca' Foscari Venezia. He is the author of Change and Continuity in Indian Sufism: A Naqshbandi-mujaddidi Branch in the Hindu Environment (2002).