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dc.contributor.authorBapat, Jayant Bhalchandra
dc.contributor.authorMabbett, Ian
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-01 23:55:55
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-27 14:42:04
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T13:37:12Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T13:37:12Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier627651
dc.identifierOCN: 967589463en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31489
dc.description.abstractConceiving the Goddess is an exploration of goddess cults in South Asia that embodies research on South Asian goddesses in various disciplines. The theme running through all the contributions, with their multiple approaches and points of view, is the concept of appropriation, whereby one religious group adopts a religious belief or practice not formerly its own. What is the motivation behind this? Are such actions attempts to dominate, or to resist the domination of others, or to adapt to changing social circumstances – or perhaps simply to enrich the religious experience of a group’s members? In examining these questions, Conceiving the Goddess considers a range of settings: a Jain goddess lurking in a Brahminical temple, the fraught relationship between the humble Camār caste and the river goddess Gaṅgā, the mutual appropriation of disciple and goddess in the tantric exercises of Kashmiri Śaivism, and the alarming self-decapitation of the fierce goddess Chinnamastā.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMonash Asia Series
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRV Aspects of religionen_US
dc.subject.otherTheology
dc.subject.othergoddesses
dc.subject.otherIndic goddesses
dc.subject.otherwomen and religion
dc.subject.otherreligious appropriation
dc.subject.othergoddess appropriation
dc.subject.otherChinnamastā’
dc.subject.otherDurgā
dc.subject.otherDevī
dc.subject.otherŚaktipīṭha
dc.subject.otherKuladaivata
dc.subject.otherPurāṇic narrative
dc.subject.otherRavidās
dc.subject.otherGaṅgā
dc.subject.otherJainism
dc.subject.otherKoli people
dc.subject.otherPuja (Hinduism)
dc.subject.otherShiva
dc.titleConceiving the Goddess
dc.title.alternativeTransformation and Appropriation in Indic Religions
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.26530/oapen_627651
oapen.relation.isPublishedByca6f5f25-1581-4668-a187-8ddef959496d
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9781925377613
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.place.publicationClayton, Victoria, Australia
oapen.grant.number100430
oapen.grant.programKU Select 2016 Front List Collection
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Durga - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durga; Jainism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism; Koli people - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koli_people; Puja (Hinduism) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puja_(Hinduism); Shiva - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva
oapen.identifier.isbn9781925377613
grantor.number100430
oapen.identifier.ocn967589463


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