Inventing and reinventing the goddess contemporary iterations of Hindu deities on the move / Edited by Sree Padma.
| Other author | Sree Padma, 1956- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham : LEXINGTON BOOKS, [2014] |
| Description | xiii, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Goddesses that dwell on earth : a folk paradigm of divine female multiplicity / Brenda Beck -- Constructing goddess worship : colonial ethnographic and public health discourses in South India / Perundevi Srinivasan -- From local goddess to locale goddess : Karumariamman as divine mother at a North American Hindu temple / Tracy Pintchman -- An indentured goddess : displacement of a village deity from colonial India to Ceylon / Sasi Kumar Balasundaram -- Creating realities, communicating dreams, constructing temple lore : anklets for the goddess' feet at Thirumeeyachur / Vasudha Narayanan -- Traveling goddess : a study of Uppalamma in Andhra Pradesh / Sree Padma -- The leap of the limping goddess : Aai Khodiyar of Gujarat / Neelima Shukla-Bhatt -- Tantric visions, local manifestations : the cult centre of Chinnamasta at Rajrappa, Jharkhand / R. Mahalakshmi -- The goddess on the hill : the (re)invention of a local goddess as Cāmuṇḍi / Caleb Simmons -- Communicating the local discursively : devi, the divine feminine as a contemporary symbol for grassroots feminist politics / Priya Kapoor. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-276) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014008425 |
| ISBN | 9780739190012 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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