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Seeking Mahādevī :

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0791450074 (alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

0791450082 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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9780791450079 (alk. paper)

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9780791450086 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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b524802

Title Proper

Seeking Mahādevī :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

constructing the indentities of the Hindu Great Goddess /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Tracy Pintchman

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Albany :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

State University of New York Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2001.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 254 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

23 cm.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-241) and index.

Text of Note

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

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Hindu goddesses.

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Book number

Pintchman, Tracy.

Date of Transaction

20140220050033.0

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[Book]

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