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050 4 $aBL1216.2$b.O94 2018
082 04 $a294.5/2114$223
245 04 $aThe goddess /$cedited by Mandakranta Bose.
246 18 $aOxford history of Hinduism :$bthe goddess
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aOxford, United Kingdom :$bOxford University Press,$c2018.
264 4 $c©2018
300 $axvi, 344 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aThe Oxford history of Hinduism
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aCosmological, devotional, and social perspectives on the Hindu goddess / Tracy Pintchman -- From magic to deity, matter to persona : the exaltation of Maya / Bihani Sarkar -- Lalim, the graceful and enchanting goddess of Kaficipuram / Sanjukta Gupta -- Śrī/Lakşmī: goddess of plenitude and ideal of womanhood / Mandakranta Bose -- The elusive sarasvatī : a goddess, a river, and the search for the universal in the particular / Elizabeth Mary Rohlman - Rādhā : lover and beloved of Kṛṣṇia / Tracy Coleman -- Sītā : enduring example for women / Heidi R. Pauwels -- Here are the daughters : reclaiming the girl child (Kanyā, Bālā, Kumārī) in the empowering tales and rituals of Śākta Tantra / Madhu Khanna -- Becoming a Living Goddess / Brenda Beck -- Bathukamma : the folk-song tradition of the flower goddess of Telangana in South India / Prabhavati C. Reddy -- A goddess from Bengal : Devi Manasa, Goddess of serpents / Krishna Datta -- Domestication of the disorderly devī : The Caṇḍī Maṅgalakāvya of Bengal / Saswati Sengupta -- A "Muslim" poet in the lap of a "Hindu" mother : Kazi Nazrul Islam and the Goddess Kālī / Rachel Fell McDermott -- The divine mother comes to Michigan / Tracy Pintchman.
520 8 $aThis book explains how Hindus think about divinity in its feminine aspect, as the supreme creative energy of the cosmos. That energy is a single abstract idea but manifests itself in many forms, each imagined as a goddess with particular powers and functions.
650 0 $aHindu goddesses.
650 0 $aHindu goddesses$xSocial aspects.
650 7 $aHindu goddesses.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01729905
650 0 $aGoddesses.
700 1 $aBose, Mandakranta,$d1938-$eeditor.
830 0 $aOxford history of Hinduism.
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