This book analyses divinizing in South Asian traditions. It studies cultural questions related to the representations and mythologizing of the divine, and the human relations to the "divine other," as well as the process of interpreting the divine in religious texts and the embodying the "divine Other" in ritual practices. The focus is on studying the phenomenon of divinizing in its religious, cultural, and ideological implications. The book comprises seven chapters that explore the question of divinizing from the 2nd century CE up to present-day in both North and South India. Written by experts in the field of South Asian religion the chapters discuss the issue both from the perspective of textual study and ideological analysis as well as from the perspective of anthropological analysis. Both insider- and outsider perspectives are represented. Applying theoretical models of religious and cultural studies to discuss texts written in South Asian languages and engage in critical dialogue with current scholarship in Asia and beyond, this book is an indispensable study of literary, religious and cultural production in South Asia. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of South Asian studies, South Asian religions, South Asian literatures as well as Asian Studies religious and cultural studies and comparative religion.