Research Catalog

Title

Seeking Mahādevī : constructing the indentities of the Hindu Great Goddess / edited by Tracy Pintchman.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

Pintchman, Tracy

Description

1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) : illustrations

Subjects

• Déesses hindoues
• Hindu goddesses
• RELIGION > Hinduism > Theology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-241) and index.

Language (note)

• English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Identity Construction and the Hindu Great Goddess / Tracy Pintchman 1 -- 1 The Tantric and Vedantic Identity of the Great Goddess in the Devi Gita of the Devi-Bhagavata Purana / C. Mackenzie Brown 19 -- 2 Mahadevi as Mother: The Oriya Hindu Vision of Reality / Usha Menon 37 -- 3 Ambiguous and Definitive: The Greatness of Goddess Vaisno Devi / Mark Edwin Rohe 55 -- 4 The Goddess as Fount of the Universe: Shared Visions and Negotiated Allegiances in Puranic Accounts of Cosmogenesis / Tracy Pintchman 77 -- 5 Waves of Beauty, Rivers of Blood: Constructing the Goddess in Kerala / Sarah Caldwell 93 -- 6 From Village to City: Transforming Goddesses in Urban Andhra Pradesh / Sree Padma 115 -- 7 Reconstructing the Split Goddess as Sakti in a Tamil Village / Elaine Craddock 145 -- 8 Perfecting the Mother's Silence: Dream, Devotion, and Family in the Deification of Sharada Devi / Jeffrey J. Kripal 171 -- 9 Goddesses and the Goddess in Hinduism: Constructing the Goddess through Religious Experience / Kathleen M. Erndl 199 -- 10 What Is a "Goddess" and What Does It Mean to "Construct" One? / Thomas B. Coburn 213.

ISBN

• 0791450074
• 9780791450079
• 0791450082
• 9780791450086
• 0791490491
• 9780791490495

OCLC

• 49852736
• SCSB-12814502

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library