Inventing and reinventing the goddess: contemporary iterations of Hindu deities on the move
Goddesses that dwell on earth : a folk paradigm of divine female multiplicity / Brenda Beck -- Constructing goddess worship : colonial ethnographic and public health discourses in South India / Perundevi Srinivasan -- From local goddess to locale goddess : Karumariamman as divine mother at a North A...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Lanham [u,.a.]
Lexington Books
2014
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| In: | Year: 2014 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
India
/ Hinduism
/ Folk religion
/ Goddess
/ Geschichte 2000-
B Hinduism / Folk religion / Goddess / Geschichte 2000- B Hinduism / Goddess |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Hindusim Social aspects B Hinduism Social aspects B Hindu goddesses |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag) |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | Goddesses that dwell on earth : a folk paradigm of divine female multiplicity / Brenda Beck -- Constructing goddess worship : colonial ethnographic and public health discourses in South India / Perundevi Srinivasan -- From local goddess to locale goddess : Karumariamman as divine mother at a North American Hindu temple / Tracy Pintchman -- An indentured goddess : displacement of a village deity from colonial India to Ceylon / Sasi Kumar Balasundaram -- Creating realities, communicating dreams, constructing temple lore : anklets for the goddess' feet at Thirumeeyachur / Vasudha Narayanan -- Traveling goddess : a study of Uppalamma in Andhra Pradesh / Sree Padma -- The leap of the limping goddess : Aai Khodiyar of Gujarat / Neelima Shukla-Bhatt -- Tantric visions, local manifestations : the cult centre of Chinnamasta at Rajrappa, Jharkhand / R. Mahalakshmi -- The goddess on the hill : the (re)invention of a local goddess as Cāmuṇḍi / Caleb Simmons -- Communicating the local discursively : devi, the divine feminine as a contemporary symbol for grassroots feminist politics / Priya Kapoor |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XIII, 284 S., Ill., graph. Darst., Kt., 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0739190016 |