Encountering Kali: in the margins, at the center, in the West
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press 2003
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index
Introducing Kālī studies / Jeffrey J. Kripal and Rachel Fell McDermott -- Kālī / David R. Kinsley -- Kālī the terrific and her tests: the Śākta devotionalism of the Mahābhāgavata Purāṇa / Patricia Dold -- The domestication of a goddess: caraṇa-tīrtha kālīghāṭ, the mahāpīṭha of Kālī / Sanjukta Gupta -- Dominating Kālī: Hindu family values and tantric power / Usha Menon and Richard A. Shweder -- Kāḷi in a context of terror: the tasks of a goddess in Sri Lanka's civil war / Patricia Lawrence -- Kālī Māyī: myth and reality in a Banaras ghetto / Roxanne Kamayani Gupta -- Wrestling with Kālī: South Asian and British constructions of the dark goddess / Cynthia Ann Humes -- "India's darkest heart": Kālī in the colonial imagination / Hugh B. Urban -- Why the Tāntrika is a hero: Kālī in the psychoanalytic tradition / Jeffrey J. Kripal -- Doing the mother's Carribbean work: on shakti and society in contemporary Trinidad / Keith E. McNeal -- Margins at the center: tracing Kālī through time, space, and culture / Sarah Caldwell -- Kālī's new frontiers: a Hindu goddess on the internet / Rachel Fell McDermott -- Appendix: documentary film and video resources for teaching on Kālī and fierce goddesses / Sarah Caldwell
This title explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen - the Hindu goddess Kālī. She is simultaneously understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of ritual possession, a Tantric sexual partner, and an all-loving, compassionate mother
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 321 pages)
ISBN:0520232399
0520232402
0520928172
1417522720
9780520232396
9780520232402
9780520928176
9781417522729

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