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Conceiving the Goddess
Transformation and Appropriation in Indic Religions
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Conceiving the Goddess
Transformation and Appropriation in Indic Religions
About this book
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 Camar caste and the river goddess Ga?ga, the mutual appropriation of disciple and goddess in the tantric exercises of Kashmiri Saivism, and the alarming self-decapitation of the fierce goddess Chinnamasta.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front matter
- 1. On Appropriation and Transformation
- 2. Crowns, Horns and Goddesses
- 3. The Appropriation of the Goddess into the Purāṇic Narrative
- 4. The Yakṣiṇī Devī of Mangaon
- 5. Appropriating the Inappropriate
- 6. Ravidās and the Gaṅgā
- 7. The Goddess Chinnamastā’s Severed Head as a Re-Appropriation of the Cosmic Sacrifice
- 8. The Appropriation of Durgā
- 9. From a Śaktipīṭha to Kuladaivata
- 10. The Female Protector of Yolmo’s Hidden Land
- 11. Ekveera Devi and the Son Kolis of Mumbai
- 12. Modern Appropriations of Devī
- Images
- About the Editors and Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover