The volume underscores the manner in which the religious cultures of goddesses are reflexes of larger social processes occurring historically in local contexts and illustrates transformations in how these same goddesses are understood when they migrate from indigenous social and cultural contexts to destinations with their devotees.
The volume underscores the manner in which the religious cultures of goddesses are reflexes of larger social processes occurring historically in local contexts and illustrates transformations in how these same goddesses are understood when they migrate from indigenous social and cultural contexts to destinations with their devotees.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Sree Padma is executive director of the Inter-Collegiate Sri Lanka Education (ISLE) Program and research assistant professor in Asian studies at Bowdoin College.
Inhaltsangabe
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 C mun d Caleb Simmons Chapter 10: Communicating the Local Discursively: Devi, the Divine feminine as a Contemporary Symbol for Grassroots Feminist Politics Priya Kapoor
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 C mun d Caleb Simmons Chapter 10: Communicating the Local Discursively: Devi, the Divine feminine as a Contemporary Symbol for Grassroots Feminist Politics Priya Kapoor
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