03846cam a2200577Mi 4500 ocn885466185 OCoLC 20200709060151.0 m d cr |n||||||||| 140807s2014 mduab ob 001 0 eng d YDXCP eng rda pn YDXCP N$T CDX OCLCQ EBLCP IDEBK E7B OCLCQ SAV OCLCQ SNK DKU IGB BNG 884014461 1004481638 1004794509 1005050167 1008894076 1013722366 1017928319 0739190024 (electronic bk.) 9780739190029 (electronic bk.) 9780739190012 (cloth ; alk. paper) 0739190016 (cloth ; alk. paper) 813032 (N$T) (OCoLC)885466185 (OCoLC)884014461 (OCoLC)1004481638 (OCoLC)1004794509 (OCoLC)1005050167 (OCoLC)1008894076 (OCoLC)1013722366 (OCoLC)1017928319 a-ii--- BL1216 .I68 2014 REL 017000 bisacsh 294.5/2114 23 MAIN Inventing and reinventing the goddess : contemporary iterations of Hindu deities on the move / edited by Sree Padma. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014] 1 online resource (xiii, 284 pages .) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Print version record. The volume investigates two related processes: First, it underscores the manner in which the religious cultures of goddesses are reflexes of larger social processes occurring historically in local contexts. Second, it illustrates transformations in how these same goddesses are understood when they migrate from indigenous social and cultural contexts to destinations with their devotees. Master record variable field(s) change: 650 Hindu goddesses. Hinduism Social aspects. RELIGION Comparative Religion. bisacsh Electronic books. Electronic books. Sree Padma, 1956- editor. Print version: 9780739190012 0739190016 (DLC) 2014008425 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=813032 Coutts Information Services COUT 28649390 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL1734034 ebrary EBRY ebr10891888 EBSCOhost EBSC 813032 ProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection IDEB cis28649390 YBP Library Services YANK 11713211 92 N$T 55029 55029