Approaching the Hindu Goddess of Desire
Pre-eminent among Tantric Goddess temples in India is Kamakhya, revered as the site where the generative organ of the Goddess is worshipped. The name of the Goddess, Kamakhya, indicates that she is at once the desired, the desiring and the granter of desires. This paper considers the ways that desir...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Sage
2007
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Feminist theology
Έτος: 2007, Τόμος: 16, Τεύχος: 1, Σελίδες: 61-78 |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Women
B Tantra B Desire B Pilgrimage B Goddess |
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| Σύνοψη: | Pre-eminent among Tantric Goddess temples in India is Kamakhya, revered as the site where the generative organ of the Goddess is worshipped. The name of the Goddess, Kamakhya, indicates that she is at once the desired, the desiring and the granter of desires. This paper considers the ways that desire was implicated in a collaborative feminist-oriented pilgrimage made by six women scholars to the Kamakhya temple in Assam. It examines problems associated with cross-cultural desiring and describes how these were addressed. The place of desire and the status of women in Tantric conceptions of the Goddess are explored along with implications for feminist appreciations of Goddesses and Tantra. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5189 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Feminist theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0966735007082517 |