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Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess
Contemporary Iterations of Hindu Deities on the Move|
57,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Lexington Books |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 03.07.2014 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780739190029 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 326 |
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<span><span>Popular religion in village India is overwhelmingly dominated by goddess worship. Goddesses can be nationally well-known like Durga or Kali, or they can be an obscure deity who is only known in a particular rural locale. The origins of a goddess can be both ancient—with many transitions or amalgamations with other cults having occurred along the way—and very recent. While some have tribal origins, others sprout up overnight due to a vivid dream. </span><span>Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess: Contemporary Iterations of Hindu Divinities on the Move</span><span> looks at the nature of how and why goddesses are invented and reinvented historically in India and how social hierarchy, gender differences, and modernity play roles in these emerging religious phenomena.</span></span>
<span><span>The volume investigates two related processes: First, it </span><span>underscores the manner in which the religious cultures of goddesses are reflexes of larger social processes occurring historically in local contexts. Second, it illustrates transformations in how these same goddesses are understood when they migrate from indigenous social and cultural contexts to destinations with their devotees.</span></span>
<span><span>Chapter 1: Goddesses That Dwell On Earth: A Folk Paradigm of Divine Female Multiplicity</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Brenda Beck</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter 2: Constructing Goddess Worship: Colonial Ethnographic and Public Health Discourses in South India</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Perundevi Srinivasan</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter 3: From Local Goddess to Locale Goddess: Karumariamman as Divine Mother at a North American Hindu Temple</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Tracy Pintchman</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter 4: An Indentured Goddess: Displacement of a Village Deity from Colonial India to Ceylon</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Sasi Kumar Balasundaram</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter 5: Creating Realities, Communicating Dreams, Constructing Temple Lore: Anklets for the Goddess’ feet at Thirumeeyachur</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Vasudha Narayanan</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter 6: Traveling Goddess– A Study of Uppalamma in Andhra Pradesh</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Sree Padma</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter 7: The Leap of the Limping Goddess: Aai Khodiyar of Gujarat</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Neelima Shukla-Bhatt</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter 8: Tantric Visions, Local Manifestations: The Cult Centre of Chinnamasta at Rajrappa, Jharkhand</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>R. Mahalakshmi</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter 9: The Goddess on the Hill: The (Re)invention of a local goddess as Cāmun</span><span>̣ḍ</span><span>ī</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Caleb Simmons</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter 10: Communicating the Local Discursively: Devi, the Divine feminine as a Contemporary Symbol for Grassroots Feminist Politics</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Priya Kapoor</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Brenda Beck</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter 2: Constructing Goddess Worship: Colonial Ethnographic and Public Health Discourses in South India</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Perundevi Srinivasan</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter 3: From Local Goddess to Locale Goddess: Karumariamman as Divine Mother at a North American Hindu Temple</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Tracy Pintchman</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter 4: An Indentured Goddess: Displacement of a Village Deity from Colonial India to Ceylon</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Sasi Kumar Balasundaram</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter 5: Creating Realities, Communicating Dreams, Constructing Temple Lore: Anklets for the Goddess’ feet at Thirumeeyachur</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Vasudha Narayanan</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter 6: Traveling Goddess– A Study of Uppalamma in Andhra Pradesh</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Sree Padma</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter 7: The Leap of the Limping Goddess: Aai Khodiyar of Gujarat</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Neelima Shukla-Bhatt</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter 8: Tantric Visions, Local Manifestations: The Cult Centre of Chinnamasta at Rajrappa, Jharkhand</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>R. Mahalakshmi</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter 9: The Goddess on the Hill: The (Re)invention of a local goddess as Cāmun</span><span>̣ḍ</span><span>ī</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Caleb Simmons</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chapter 10: Communicating the Local Discursively: Devi, the Divine feminine as a Contemporary Symbol for Grassroots Feminist Politics</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Priya Kapoor</span></span>
<span><span>Sree Padma</span><span> is </span><span>executive director of the Inter-Collegiate Sri Lanka Education (ISLE) Program and research assistant professor in Asian studies at Bowdoin College.</span></span>
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