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 InfoLanham : LEXINGTON BOOKS, [2014]
Descriptionxiii, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 265-276) and index.
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LCCN 2014008425
ISBN9780739190012 (cloth : alk. paper)

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