Seeking Mahādevī: constructing the indentities of the Hindu Great Goddess
Introduction: Identity Construction and the Hindu Great Goddess /Tracy Pintchman1 --1The Tantric and Vedantic Identity of the Great Goddess in the Devi Gita of the Devi-Bhagavata Purana /C. Mackenzie Brown19 --2Mahadevi as Mother: The Oriya Hindu Vision of Reality /Usha Menon37 --3Ambiguous and Defi...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Albany
State University of New York Press
c2001
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| In: | Year: 2001 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hinduism
/ Gods
/ Mahādevī
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Philosophy & Religion B Religion B RELIGION ; Hinduism ; Theology B Hinduism B Electronic books B Hindu goddesses |
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| Summary: | Introduction: Identity Construction and the Hindu Great Goddess /Tracy Pintchman1 --1The Tantric and Vedantic Identity of the Great Goddess in the Devi Gita of the Devi-Bhagavata Purana /C. Mackenzie Brown19 --2Mahadevi as Mother: The Oriya Hindu Vision of Reality /Usha Menon37 --3Ambiguous and Definitive: The Greatness of Goddess Vaisno Devi /Mark Edwin Rohe55 --4The Goddess as Fount of the Universe: Shared Visions and Negotiated Allegiances in Puranic Accounts of Cosmogenesis /Tracy Pintchman77 --5Waves of Beauty, Rivers of Blood: Constructing the Goddess in Kerala /Sarah Caldwell93 --6From Village to City: Transforming Goddesses in Urban Andhra Pradesh /Sree Padma115 --7Reconstructing the Split Goddess as Sakti in a Tamil Village /Elaine Craddock145 --8Perfecting the Mother's Silence: Dream, Devotion, and Family in the Deification of Sharada Devi /Jeffrey J. Kripal171 --9Goddesses and the Goddess in Hinduism: Constructing the Goddess through Religious Experience /Kathleen M. Erndl199 --10What Is a "Goddess" and What Does It Mean to "Construct" One? /Thomas B. Coburn213. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-241) and index. - Description based on print version record |
| Physical Description: | Online Ressource (xiii, 254 p.), ill. |
| ISBN: | 0-7914-5007-4 978-0-7914-5007-9 |
