Caleb Simmons

Gebundenes Buch

Singing the Goddess into Place

Locality, Myth, and Social Change in Chamundi of the Hill, a Kannada Folk Ballad

Beschreibung

Explores how a folk ballad in southern India transforms the landscape and embeds the deities that are its subject within the social worlds of their devotees.

Autor

Caleb Simmons is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Faculty Director of the Bachelor of General Studies Program in the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India and coeditor (with Moumita Sen and Hillary Rodrigues) of Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navarātri Festival in South Asia, also published by SUNY Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SUNY Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9781438488653
• ISBN-10: 1438488653
• Artikelnr.: 62892663