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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Contributors: Sree Padma 1956- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Lanham [u,.a.] Lexington Books 2014
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
Online Access: 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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0739190016