Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess
Contemporary Iterations of Hindu Deities on the Move
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 3. July 2014
326 pages
978-0-7391-9002-9 (ISBN)
Description
Popular religion in village India is overwhelmingly dominated by goddess worship. Goddesses can be nationally well-known like Durga or Kali, or they can be an obscure deity who is only known in a particular rural locale. The origins of a goddess can be both ancient-with many transitions or amalgamations with other cults having occurred along the way-and very recent. While some have tribal origins, others sprout up overnight due to a vivid dream. Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess: Contemporary Iterations of Hindu Divinities on the Move looks at the nature of how and why goddesses are invented and reinvented historically in India and how social hierarchy, gender differences, and modernity play roles in these emerging religious phenomena.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
65 b/w photos; 6 maps; 1 graphs; 8 charts;
ISBN-13
978-0-7391-9002-9 (9780739190029)
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Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess
Contemporary Iterations of Hindu Deities on the Move
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Sree Padma is executive director of the Inter-Collegiate Sri Lanka Education (ISLE) Program and research assistant professor in Asian studies at Bowdoin College.
Content
Chapter 1: Goddesses That Dwell On Earth: A Folk Paradigm of Divine Female Multiplicity
Brenda Beck
Chapter 2: Constructing Goddess Worship: Colonial Ethnographic and Public Health Discourses in South India
Perundevi Srinivasan
Chapter 3: From Local Goddess to Locale Goddess: Karumariamman as Divine Mother at a North American Hindu Temple
Tracy Pintchman
Chapter 4: An Indentured Goddess: Displacement of a Village Deity from Colonial India to Ceylon
Sasi Kumar Balasundaram
Chapter 5: Creating Realities, Communicating Dreams, Constructing Temple Lore: Anklets for the Goddess' feet at Thirumeeyachur
Vasudha Narayanan
Chapter 6: Traveling Goddess- A Study of Uppalamma in Andhra Pradesh
Sree Padma
Chapter 7: The Leap of the Limping Goddess: Aai Khodiyar of Gujarat
Neelima Shukla-Bhatt
Chapter 8: Tantric Visions, Local Manifestations: The Cult Centre of Chinnamasta at Rajrappa, Jharkhand
R. Mahalakshmi
Chapter 9: The Goddess on the Hill: The (Re)invention of a local goddess as Camun?d?i
Caleb Simmo
Brenda Beck
Chapter 2: Constructing Goddess Worship: Colonial Ethnographic and Public Health Discourses in South India
Perundevi Srinivasan
Chapter 3: From Local Goddess to Locale Goddess: Karumariamman as Divine Mother at a North American Hindu Temple
Tracy Pintchman
Chapter 4: An Indentured Goddess: Displacement of a Village Deity from Colonial India to Ceylon
Sasi Kumar Balasundaram
Chapter 5: Creating Realities, Communicating Dreams, Constructing Temple Lore: Anklets for the Goddess' feet at Thirumeeyachur
Vasudha Narayanan
Chapter 6: Traveling Goddess- A Study of Uppalamma in Andhra Pradesh
Sree Padma
Chapter 7: The Leap of the Limping Goddess: Aai Khodiyar of Gujarat
Neelima Shukla-Bhatt
Chapter 8: Tantric Visions, Local Manifestations: The Cult Centre of Chinnamasta at Rajrappa, Jharkhand
R. Mahalakshmi
Chapter 9: The Goddess on the Hill: The (Re)invention of a local goddess as Camun?d?i
Caleb Simmo
