TY  - BOOK
AU  - Padma,Sree
AU  - Beck,Brenda
AU  - Srinivasan,Perundevi
AU  - Bornet,Phillipe
AU  - Balasundaram,Sasikumar
AU  - Narayanan,Vasudha
AU  - Shukla-Bhatt,Neelima
AU  - Mahalakshmi,R.
AU  - Simmons,Caleb
AU  - Kapoor,Priya
TI  - Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess: Contemporary Iterations of Hindu Deities on the Move
SN  - 9780739190029
AV  - BL1216.I584 2014eb 
U1  - 294.5/2114 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
KW  - Hindusim -- Social aspects
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Goddesses Who Dwell on Earth -- 2 Constructing Goddess Worship -- 3 From Local Goddess to Locale Goddess -- 4 An Indentured Tamil Goddess -- 5 Creating Realities, Communicating Dreams, Constructing Temple Lore -- 6 Daughter of the House -- 7 The Leap of the Limping Goddess -- 8 Tantric Visions, Local Manifestations -- 9 The Goddess on the Hill -- 10 Communicating the Local Discursively -- References -- Index -- About the Contributors
N2  - The volume investigates two related processes: First, it underscores the manner in which the religious cultures of goddesses are reflexes of larger social processes occurring historically in local contexts. Second, it illustrates transformations in how these same goddesses are understood when they migrate from indigenous social and cultural contexts to destinations with their devotees
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