ISBN:
9781925377613
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9781925377606
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9781925377316
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 290 Seiten)
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illustrations, figures, tables
Series Statement:
The monash asia series
Parallel Title:
Print version Conceiving the Goddess, Transformation and Appropriation in Indic Religions
DDC:
294.5211
Keywords:
Women and religion
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Goddesses, Indic
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Women and religion
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Goddesses, Indic
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Religion
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Goddesses, Indic
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Goddesses, Indic
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Religion
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Women and religion
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Women and religion
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South Asia
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South Asia
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Südasien
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Göttin
Abstract:
Conceiving the Goddess is an exploration of goddess cults in South Asia that embodies research on South Asian goddesses in various disciplines. The theme running through all the contributions, with their multiple approaches and points of view, is the concept of appropriation, whereby one religious group adopts a religious belief or practice not formerly its own. What is the motivation behind this? Are such actions attempts to dominate, or to resist the domination of others, or to adapt to changing social circumstances – or perhaps simply to enrich the religious experience of a group’s members? In examining these questions, Conceiving the Goddess considers a range of settings: a Jain goddess lurking in a Brahminical temple, the fraught relationship between the humble Camār caste and the river goddess Gaṅgā, the mutual appropriation of disciple and goddess in the tantric exercises of Kashmiri Śaivism, and the alarming self-decapitation of the fierce goddess Chinnamastā
Note:
On appropriation and transformation
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Crowns, horns and goddesses: appropriation of symbols in Gandhara and beyond
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The appropriation of the goddess into the Puranic narrative: integration/appropriation in the Vamanapurana
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The Yaksini Devi of Mangaon: appropriation of a Jain goddess by Brahminic Hinduism
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Appropriating the inappropriate
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Ravidas and the Ganga: appropriation or contestation?
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The goddess Chinnamasta's severed head as a re-appropriation f the cosmic sacrifice
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The appropriation of Durga
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From a Saktipitha to Kuladaivata: the appropriation of goddess Jogai of Ambe
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The female protector of Yolmo's hidden land
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Ekveera Devi and the Son Kolis of Mumbai: have the Kolis appropriated the Karle Buddhist Chaitya?
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Modern appropriations of Devi
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