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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| Medienart: | Druck Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Veröffentlicht: |
Lanham [u,.a.]
Lexington Books
2014
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| In: | Jahr: 2014 |
| Bände / Aufsätze: | Bände / Aufsätze anzeigen. |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Indien
/ Hinduismus
/ Volksreligion
/ Göttin
/ Geschichte 2000-
B Hinduismus / Volksreligion / Göttin / Geschichte 2000- B Hinduismus / Göttin |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Aufsatzsammlung
B Hindusim Social aspects B Hinduism Social aspects B Hindu goddesses |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag) |
| Parallele Ausgabe: | Elektronisch
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0739190016 |