A01=Donna Marie Wulff
A01=John Stratton Hawley
anthropology
Author_Donna Marie Wulff
Author_John Stratton Hawley
bhagavati
Category=QRD
cultural anthropology
deity
devi
devi mahatmya
divine
divine feminine
durga
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feminine as divine
femininity
feminist theory
fieldwork
gender studies
goddess
heavenly
hindu
hindu goddesses
hinduism
india
indian history
indian religion
kali
lakshmi
mother india
parvati
religion
river ganges
saranyu
saraswati
seranvali
shaivism hindu tradition
shaktism hindu tradition
the great goddess
vedas
vindhyavasini
worship
Product details
- ISBN 9780520200586
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 1996
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have severely limited the portrayal of the divine as feminine. But in Hinduism "God" very often means "Goddess". This extraordinary collection explores twelve different Hindu goddesses, all of whom are in some way related to Devi, the Great Goddess. They range from the liquid goddess - energy of the River Ganges to the possessing, entrancing heat of Bhagavati and Seranvali. They are local, like Vindhyavasini, and global, like Kali; ancient, like Saranyu, and modern, like "Mother India". The collection combines analysis of texts with intensive fieldwork, allowing the reader to see how goddesses are worshiped in everyday life. In these compelling essays, the divine feminine in Hinduism is revealed as never before - fascinating, contradictory, powerful.
John S. Hawley is Professor of Religion at Barnard College and Director of the the National Resource Center for South Asia at Columbia University. Donna M. Wulff is Professor of Religion at Brown University. Together they edited The Divine Consort: Radha and the Goddesses of India (1986).
