Hüsken / Narayanan / Zotter Nine Nights of Power

Durga, Dolls, and Darbars
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8408-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Hindu Studies

Explores the rich diversity of narratives, rituals, and participants connected with one of the most important celebrations for Hindus in South Asia and in the diaspora.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hüsken, Ute

Narayanan, Vasudha

Zotter, Astrid

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Nine Nights of Power: Durga, Dolls, and Darbars—An Introduction
Ute Hüsken, Vasudha Narayanan, and Astrid Zotter

Navaratri as Agent of Renewal and Transformation

1. Ritual of Revitalization: The Transformative Power of the Durga Puja
Hillary Rodrigues

2. Straddling the Sacred and the Secular: Presence and Absence of the Goddess in Contemporary Garbo, the Navaratri Dance of Gujarat
Neelima Shukla-Bhatt

Propriety versus Creativity in Navaratri

3. Can Didi Truly Become Durga? The Riddle of the Two Goddesses
Moumita Sen

4. Limits of Creativity: Kolu in Brahmin Vaisnava Households in Kañcipuram
Ute Hüsken

Gendered Identities in Navaratri

5. Navaratri as a Festival of Hanuman and Male Asceticism
R. Jeremy Saul

6. Going Home for Navaratri: Negotiating Caste, Class, and Gender between Rural and Urban Rajasthan
Jennifer D. Ortegren

7. Female Agency during Tamil Navaratri
Ina Marie Lunde Ilkama

Navaratri as Instrument of Power

8. Who Kills the Buffalo? Authority and Agency in the Ritual Logistics of the Nepalese Dasai Festival
Astrid Zotter

9. Domains of Dasara: Reflections on the Struggle for Significance in Contemporary Mysore
Caleb Simmons

10. The Ups and Downs of Competing Power Rituals: Dasara and Durga Puja in a Former Princely State of Odisha
Uwe Skoda

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ute Hüsken is Professor and Head of the Department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia at the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University, Germany. Her books include The Ambivalence of Denial: Danger and Appeal of Rituals (coedited with Udo Simon). Vasudha Narayanan is Distinguished Professor of Religion and Director of the Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions at the University of Florida. Her books include The Life of Hinduism (coedited with John Stratton Hawley). Astrid Zotter is researcher at Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany. Her books include Hindu and Buddhist Initiations in India and Nepal (coedited with Christof Zotter).