Goddesses And Women In The Indic Religious Tradition
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Goddesses And Women In The Indic Religious Tradition
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Author : Arvind Sharma
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2005
Goddesses And Women In The Indic Religious Tradition written by Arvind Sharma and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Following the lead of a "hermeneutics of surprise" the book identifies, indeed, surprising new material, and offers unexpected new insights essential to the debate on the position of goddesses and women in ancient India.
Hindu Goddesses
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Author : David Kinsley
language : en
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Release Date : 1998
Hindu Goddesses written by David Kinsley and has been published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Religion categories.
Hindu Goddesses is a valuable sourcebook and reference work for students and scholars of Hindu goddesses and of Hinduism in general. Each goddess is dealt with as an independent deity with a coherent mythology, theology and, in some cases, cult of her own. Within the complex, diverse, and rich goddess traditions of Hinduism, one can find suggestions of nearly every important theme in the Hindu religion. In many ways, this book is as much a study of the Hindu tradition itself as it is a study of one aspect of that tradition. No other living religious tradition has displayed such an ancient, continuous, and diverse history of goddess worship.
Women In The Hindu Tradition
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Author : Mandakranta Bose
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-01-19
Women In The Hindu Tradition written by Mandakranta Bose and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-19 with Literary Collections categories.
This book accounts for the origin and evolution of the nature and roles of women within the Hindu belief system. It explains how the idea of the goddess has been derived from Hindu philosophical ideas and texts of codes of conduct and how particular models of conduct for mortal women have been created. Hindu religious culture correlates philosophical speculation and social imperatives to situate femininity on a continuum from divine to mortal existence. This creates in the Hindu consciousness multiple - often contradictory - images of women, both as wielders and subjects of authority. The conception and evolution of the major Hindu goddesses, placed against the judgments passed by texts of Hindu sacred law on women’s nature and duties, illuminate the Hindu discourse on gender, the complexity of which is compounded by the distinctive spirituality of female ascetic poets. Drawing on a wide range of Sanskrit texts, the author explains how the idea of the goddess has been derived from Hindu philosophical ideas and also from the social roles of women as reflected in, and prescribed by, texts of codes of conduct. She examines the idea of female divinity which gave rise to models of conduct for mortal women. Instead of a one-way order of ideological derivation, the author argues that there is constant traffic between both ways the notional and the actual feminine. This book brings together for the first time a wide range of material and offers fresh stimulating interpretations of women in the Hindu Tradition.
Women And Goddess Traditions
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Author : Karen L. King
language : en
Publisher: Continuum
Release Date : 1997
Women And Goddess Traditions written by Karen L. King and has been published by Continuum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Goddess religion was widespread in the world of the Bible and is reflected in many biblical texts. This provocative and reliable book, based on thorough analyses of primary sources, examines the role of the feminine deity in religious piety in three areas: Asia, the ancient Mediterranean, and in three contexts today.
Vicissitudes Of The Goddess
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Author : Sree Padma
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-17
Vicissitudes Of The Goddess written by Sree Padma and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-17 with Religion categories.
This book provides a detailed history of Hindu goddess traditions with a special focus on the local goddesses of Andhra Pradesh, past and present. The antiquity and the evolution of these goddess traditions are illustrated and documented with the help of archaeological reports, literary sources, inscriptions and art. Tracing the symbols and images of goddess into the brahmanical (Saiva and Vaisnava), Buddhist, and Jaina religious traditions, the book argues effectively how and with what motivations goddesses and their symbolizations were appropriated and transformed. The book also examines the evolution of popular Hindu goddesses such as Durga and Kali, discussing their tribal and agricultural backgrounds. It also deals extensively with how and in what circumstances women are deified and shows how these deified women cults share characteristics with the village goddesses.
Reciting The Goddess
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Author : Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-01
Reciting The Goddess written by Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-01 with Religion categories.
Reciting the Goddess presents the first critical study of the Svasthanivratakatha (SVK), a sixteenth-century Hindu narrative textual tradition. The extensive SVK manuscript tradition offers a rare opportunity to observe the making of a specific, distinct Hindu religious tradition. Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz argues that the SVK serves as a lens through which we can observe the creation of modern 'Hinduism' in the Himalayas, as the text both mirrored and informed key moments in the self-conscious creation of Nepal as the 'world's only Hindu kingdom' in the late medieval and early modern period. Birkenholtz mines the literary historiography that is contained within the SVK text itself, chronicling the text's literary and narrative development as well as the development of the Svasthani goddess tradition. She outlines the process whereby the SVK gradually transformed into a Purana text, and became a critical source for Nepali Hindu belief and identity. She also examines the elusive character of the goddess Svasthani whose identity is tied to the pan-Hindu goddess tradition, and the representation of women in the SVK and the ways in which the text influenced local and regional debates on the ideal of Hindu womanhood. Reciting the Goddess presents Nepal's celebrated SVK as a micro-level illustration of the powerful ways in which people, place, and literature intersect to produce new ideas and concepts of identity and place, even in a historically non-literate culture.
Hindu Goddesses
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Author : Lynn Foulston
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-03
Hindu Goddesses written by Lynn Foulston and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-03 with Religion categories.
Explores the diversity of Hindu goddesses and the variety of ways in which they are worshipped. Although they undoubtedly have ancient origins, Hindu goddesses and their worship is still very much a part of the fabric of religious engagement in India today. This book offers an introduction to a complex and often baffling field of study.
Invoking Goddesses
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Author : Nilima Chitgopekar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Invoking Goddesses written by Nilima Chitgopekar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Feminism categories.
In Invoking Goddesses: Gender Politics in Indian Religion different Indian goddesses are studied spanning many millennia using detailed linguistic analysis of hymns, prayers; iconography, inscriptions, actual ritual performances and interviews of practitioners.
The Iconic Female
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Author : Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat
language : en
Publisher: Monash Asia Institute
Release Date : 2008
The Iconic Female written by Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat and has been published by Monash Asia Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Religion categories.
The energy of the goddess fills every facet of Indian life. To her devotees, the goddess appears in myriad forms: mother, boon-giver, destroyer of evil, divine lover, protector and/or bloodthirsty ogress. The more that is discovered about her, the more teasingly complex and multivalent the Devi appears. She is both constant and changing, loved and feared, worshipped and forgotten, only to be re-discovered and worshiped again. In this book, for the first time, ten Australian researchers, working on many aspects of the Devi, have come together and offered, in a single collection, new research on the divine female. This book begins a renewed quest for the iconic Devi who continues to emerge in her many, unpredictably powerful forms.
Dev
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Author : John Stratton Hawley
language : en
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Release Date : 1998
Dev written by John Stratton Hawley and has been published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Religion categories.
The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have severely limited the portrayal of the divine as feminine. But in Hinduism "God" very often means "Goddess." This extraordinary collection explores twelve different Hindu goddesses, all of whom are in some way related to Devi, the Great Goddess. They range from the liquid goddess-energy of the River Ganges to the possessing, entrancing heat of Bhagavati and Seranvali. They are local, like Vindhyavasini, and global, like Kali; ancient, like Saranyu, and modern, like "Mother India." The collection combines analysis of texts with intensive fieldwork, allowing the reader to see how goddesses are worshiped in everyday life. In these compelling essays, the divine feminine in Hinduism is revealed as never before--fascinating, contradictory, powerful.