Mutating goddesses: Bengal's laukika Hinduism and gender rights

'Mutating Goddesses' traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities - Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi - from the fifteenth century to the present time. It focuses on the goddess-invested tradition of Bengal's Hinduism, and especially its laukika archive as opposed to the...

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1. Verfasser: Sengupta, Saswati ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2020
Ausgabe:First edition
Schriftenreihe:Oxford scholarship online
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Zusammenfassung:'Mutating Goddesses' traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities - Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi - from the fifteenth century to the present time. It focuses on the goddess-invested tradition of Bengal's Hinduism, and especially its laukika archive as opposed to the sastrik deriving from Sanskrit scriptures authorized by the Brahman, to argue for a historical evolution/devolution of divinities and the knotted correlation of gender, caste and class in the sanctioning of female subjectivities through goddess formation
Beschreibung:This edition also issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (375 Seiten)
ISBN:9780190993269
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190124106.001.0001

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