(Re)Mystifying the Devi Mahatmyam

From Mythic-Texts to Life
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-3-032-40538-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 411 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

This collection challenges normative, fixed, and universal interpretations of the , a central Hindu mythical-text for goddess worship. Authors in this anthology animate, resituate, and resignify this mythical-text across social worlds. The text is viewed as a living “mnemotext,” where myth functions as memory and method, enabling creative rearticulations and reclamations in areas of leadership, war, peace, diplomacy, reproductive justice, gender equality, grief, psychological resilience, and spiritual empowerment. Through decolonial, social justice, feminist, ecowomanist, psychological, thealogical, philosophical, poetic, memoir, creative fiction, auto-ethnographic, and interdisciplinary approaches, contributors seek not merely to but to the mythical-text for our times. In doing so, they demonstrate the complex entangled interrelationship between myth, subjectivity, women and society, gender, race, species, and the Earth, and how this ancient wisdom of the feminine principle might help us address the ethical and planetary challenges we face today.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rodrigues, Pravina

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Samer Forzley: Old and New: Contemporary Portraits of Maha¯ka¯li¯ in North America and the Devi¯ Maha¯tmyam.- Chapter 2. Rosalind Schwarz: Pregnancy, Power and Protection: Encountering Devi¯ in the Post-Roe South.- Chapter 3. Neela Bhattacharya Saxena: Maha¯ma¯ya, the Cosmic Weaver, and Liberating Consciousness: Reading Can?d?i¯ as an Ur S´a¯kta Advaya Text.- Chapter 4. Sowmya Ayyar: War, Peace, Conflict, and Diplomacy in the Devi¯ Maha¯tmyam Chapter.- 5. Laura M. Dunn: Psychological Aesthetic of Empowerment in the Devi¯ Maha¯tmyam.- Chapter 6. Swamini Svatmavidyananda Saraswati: Grappling with Theodicy in the Devi¯ Maha¯tmyam.- Chapter 7. Pravina Rodrigues: An Ecowomanist Reading of the Devi¯ Maha¯tmyam.- Chapter 8. Kali Meera Tanikella: Harmonizing Mindscapes: A Comparative Study of Psychological Principles in the Devi¯ Maha¯tmyam and Siegel’s Model of Integration.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Pravina Rodrigues is Assistant Professor of Comparative Theology, Ethics, and Interreligious Studies at Starr King School for the Ministry in Oakland, California. She is Editor-in-Chief of Springer's and Co-Chair of the American Academy of Religion, Western Region's Dharma and Goddess Studies Unit.

Dr. Rodrigues holds a PhD in Theology and Ethics from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. She is also the associate editor of the thirty-four-chapter volume  (2022), published as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Series. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley, California (2021–2022), and served as a Newhall Teaching Fellow (2017, 2018, and 2020) and an Interreligious Collaborative Research Fellow (2019) at the Graduate Theological Union. 

Her recent publication,  (Lexington Books, 2024), offers a Hindu perspective on comparative theology, theology of religions, and interreligious dialogue. Her research interests include postcolonial and decolonial studies, Hindu-Christian comparative theology, interfaith theology, comparative mysticism, and Sakta thealogy.