Sree Padma

Vicissitudes of the Goddess

Reconstructions of the Gramadevata in India's Religious Traditions

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on archaeological, artistic, sculptural and inscriptional sources and participant/observer insights, Sree Padma reconstructs a history of goddess worship in India from ancient times (before the rise of Buddhism and bhakti) to contemporary cults of deified women.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9780199325030
• ISBN-10: 0199325030
• Artikelnr.: 38394944

Autorenporträt

Sree Padma is the executive director of the Inter-Collegiate Sri Lanka Education (ISLE) Program, a study abroad program in Sri Lanka. She also teaches at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, offering courses on the cultural history of south Asia. She has been a research associate in the Department of History and Archaeology at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, where she completed her Ph.D. She has taught at Harvard University as a lecturer and research associate in women's studies and history of religions and at Bowdoin College as assistant professor of history. She is the author of Costume, Coiffure, and Ornament in the Temple Sculpture of Northern Andhra (Agama Kala Prakasan, 1991) and the co-editor of Buddhism in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra (State University of New York Press, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Goddess Explained - Perspectives From the West
2. Contextualizing the Fertility Goddess and the Gramadevata
3. Fertility Symbols of the Goddesses:
Historical Renderings and Contemporary Practices
4. Profiles of Anthropomorphic Goddesses in Myth, Ritual, and History
5. Bala Perantalu:
Auspicious Virgin Mothers
6. Perantalu:
Auspicious Wives
7. Deifying Victimized Women:
Sacrifices and Murders
Conclusion
Bibliography