Format:
1 online resource (182 pages)
ISBN:
9781433704185
Content:
Following the lead of a "hermeneutics of surprise" the book identifies, indeed, surprising new material, and offers unexpected new insights essential to the debate on the position of goddesses and women in ancient India.
Content:
Intro -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE: Roles for Women in Vedic Śrauta Ritual (STEPHANIE W. JAMISON) -- CHAPTER TWO: Tibetan Fairy Glimmerings: Dākinīs in Buddhist Spiritual Biography (VICTORIA KENNICK URUBSHUROW) -- CHAPTER THREE: Women, Earth, and the Goddess: A Śākta-Hindu Interpretation of Embodied Religion (KARTIKEYA C. PATEL) -- CHAPTER FOUR: Women in the Worship of the Great Goddess (HILLARY RODRIGUES) -- CHAPTER FIVE: Between Pestle and Mortar: Women in the Marathi Sant Tradition (VIDYUT AKLUJKAR) -- CHAPTER SIX: Śankara on the Salvation of Women and Śūdras (KATHERINE K. YOUNG) -- INDEX.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004124660
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004124660
Additional Edition:
Print version Goddesses and Women in the Indic Religious Tradition
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=280576
