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Inventing and reinventing the goddess: contemporary iterations of Hindu deities on the move

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham Lexington Books 2104Description: xiii, 284 pISBN:
  • 9780739190012
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.52114 I6
Summary: 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. (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739190012/Inventing-and-Reinventing-the-Goddess-Contemporary-Iterations-of-Hindu-Deities-on-the-Move#)
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Table of Contents:

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 Cāmuṇḍī
Caleb Simmons

Chapter 10: Communicating the Local Discursively: Devi, the Divine feminine as a Contemporary Symbol for Grassroots Feminist Politics
Priya Kapoor

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.

(https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739190012/Inventing-and-Reinventing-the-Goddess-Contemporary-Iterations-of-Hindu-Deities-on-the-Move#)

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