UID:
edocfu_9959235311402883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 254 p. )
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ill. ;
ISBN:
0-7914-9049-1
Content:
While Hindus recognize and revere a variety of different goddesses, they also tend to speak of one Great Goddess, Mahadevi, as a singular divine being who is the unity underlying all female deities. In this book, ten scholars reflect on both the diverse depictions of Mahadevi found in textual and devotional environments and the ways that the singularity and multiplicity of the divine Hindu feminine are negotiated. Seeking Mahadevicovers various geographical locations, from the Punjab and Bengal in North India to Kerala and Tamilnadu in the South, and makes use of evidence from ancient texts and contemporary interviews, male-authored documents and women's possession experiences, myth, ritual, and folklore. Arguing that Mahadevi has multiple, context-dependent identities that are constructed through human interpretive activity, this book highlights the great diversity of ways that those who worship Mahadevi conceive of and portray her.Contributors include C. Mackenzie Brown, Sarah Caldwell, Thomas Coburn, Elaine Craddock, Kathleen M. Erndl, Jeffrey J. Kripal, Usha Menon, Tracy Pintchman, Andhra Pradesh, and Mark Edwin Rohe.
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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The tantric and vedāntic identity of the great goddess in the Devī Gītā of the Devī-Bhāgavata Purāṇa /
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Mahādevī as mother : the Oriya Hindu vision of reality /
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Ambiguous and definitive : the greatness of goddess Vaiṣṇo Devī /
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The goddess as fount of the universe : shared visions and negotiated alliances in Purāṇ accounts of cosmogenesis /
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Waves of beauty, rivers of blood : constructing the goddess in Kerala /
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From village to city : transforming goddesses in urban Andhra Pradesh /
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Reconstructing the split goddess as Śakti in a Tamil village /
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Perfecting the mother's silence : dream, devotion, and family in the deification of Sharada Devi /
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Goddesses and the goddess in Hinduism : constructing the goddess through religious experience /
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What is a "goddess" and what does it mean to "construct" one? /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7914-5007-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780791490495
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