Conceiving the Goddess
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Author
Contributions
- Mabbett, Ian - Contributor
Publication
Monash University Publishing, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, No place, unknown, or undetermined
Language
English
Word Count
78,000 words, Guess
Page Count
312 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781925377309
- ISBN-139781925377613
- ISBN-10192537730X
- ISBN-10192537761X
- OCLC Control Number952931708
and 3 more
- Better World Books9781925377309
- Better World Books9781925377613
- Open LibraryOL28358537M
Classifications
- LCCBL2015.G6
- LCCBL2015.G6 C66 2017
Description
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 Cam?r caste and the river goddess Ga?g?, the mutual appropriation of disciple and goddess in the tantric exercises of Kashmiri ?aivism, and the alarming self-decapitation of the fierce goddess Chinnamast?.
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