The goddess / edited by Mandakranta Bose.
This book explains how Hindus think about divinity in its feminine aspect, as the supreme creative energy of the cosmos. That energy is a single abstract idea but manifests itself in many forms, each imagined as a goddess with particular powers and functions.
| Uniform Title: | Oxford history of Hinduism.
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford history of Hinduism.
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 344 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
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Oxford history of Hinduism : the goddess [Spine title] |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Cosmological, devotional, and social perspectives on the Hindu goddess / Tracy Pintchman
- From magic to deity, matter to persona : the exaltation of Maya / Bihani Sarkar
- Lalim, the graceful and enchanting goddess of Kaficipuram / Sanjukta Gupta
- Śrī/Lakşmī: goddess of plenitude and ideal of womanhood / Mandakranta Bose
- The elusive sarasvatī : a goddess, a river, and the search for the universal in the particular / Elizabeth Mary Rohlman - Rādhā : lover and beloved of Kṛṣṇia / Tracy Coleman
- Sītā : enduring example for women / Heidi R. Pauwels
- Here are the daughters : reclaiming the girl child (Kanyā, Bālā, Kumārī) in the empowering tales and rituals of Śākta Tantra / Madhu Khanna
- Becoming a Living Goddess / Brenda Beck
- Bathukamma : the folk-song tradition of the flower goddess of Telangana in South India / Prabhavati C. Reddy
- A goddess from Bengal : Devi Manasa, Goddess of serpents / Krishna Datta
- Domestication of the disorderly devī : The Caṇḍī Maṅgalakāvya of Bengal / Saswati Sengupta
- A "Muslim" poet in the lap of a "Hindu" mother : Kazi Nazrul Islam and the Goddess Kālī / Rachel Fell McDermott
- The divine mother comes to Michigan / Tracy Pintchman.