GODDESS OHH C

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-876702-2
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 710 g

The Oxford History of Hinduism: The Goddess provides a critical exposition of the Hindu idea of the divine feminine, or Devi, conceived as a singularity expressed in many forms. With the theological principles examined in the opening chapters, the book proceeds to describe and expound historically how individual manifestations of Devi have been imagined in Hindu religious culture and their impact upon Hindu social life. In this quest the contributors draw upon the history and philosophy of major Hindu ideologies, such as the Puranic, Tantric, and Vaisnava belief systems. A particular distinction of the book is its attention not only to the major goddesses from the earliest period of Hindu religious history but also to goddesses of later origin, in many cases of regional provenance and influence. Viewed through the lens of worship practices, legend, and literature, belief in goddesses is discovered as the formative impulse of much of public and private life. The influence of the goddess culture is especially powerful on women's life, often paradoxically situating women between veneration and subjection. This apparent contradiction arises from the humanization of goddesses while acknowledging their divinity, which is central to Hindu beliefs. In addition to studying the social and theological aspect of the goddess ideology, the contributors take anthropological, sociological, and literary approaches to delineate the emotional force of the goddess figure that claims intense human attachments and shapes personal and communal lives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bose

Bose, Mandakranta

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Abbreviations

- Notes on the Contributors

- Series Introduction

- 1: Mandakranta Bose: Introduction

- 2: Tracy Pintchman: Cosmological, Devotional, and Social Perspectives on the Hindu Goddess

- 3: Bihani Sarkar: From Magic to Deity, Matter to Persona: The Exaltation of Maya

- 4: Sanjukta Gupta: Lalita, the Graceful and Enchanting Goddess of Kancipuram

- 5: Mandakranta Bose: Sri/Laksmi: Goddess of Plenitude and Ideal of Womanhood

- 6: Elizabeth Rohlman: The Elusive Sarasvati: A Goddess, a River, and the Search for the Universal in the Particular

- 7: Tracy Coleman: Radha: Lover and Beloved of Krsna

- 8: Heidi Pauwels: Sita: Enduring Example for Women

- 9: Madhu Khanna: Here are the Daughters: Reclaiming the Girl Child 'Kanya, Bala, Kumari' in the Empowered Tales and Rituals of Sakta Tantra

- 10: Brenda Beck: Becoming a Living Goddess

- 11: Prabhavati Reddy: Bathukamma: The Folk Song Tradition of the Flower Goddess of Telangana in South India

- 12: Krishna Datta: A Goddess from Bengal: Devi Manasa, Goddess of Serpents

- 13: Saswati Sengupta: Domestication of the Disorderly Devi: the Can di Mangalakavya of Bengal

- 14: Rachel Fell McDermott: A 'Muslim' Poet in the Lap of the 'Hindu' Mother: The Freedoms and Burdens of Kazi Nazrul Islam and the Hindu Goddess Kali in Modern Bengal

- 15: Tracy Pintchman: The Divine Mother Comes to Michigan

- Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Mandakranta Bose is Professor Emerita, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, Canada. She studied Sanskrit and Hindu religious texts in Calcutta, comparative literature in Vancouver, and holds a doctorate from Oxford in textual studies in the classical performing arts of India. Bose is the editor of The Ramayana Revisited (2004) and Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern India (2000).