Goddesses and Women in the Indic Religious Tradition.
Title:
Goddesses and Women in the Indic Religious Tradition.
Author:
Sharma, Arvind.
ISBN:
9781433704185
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (182 pages)
Contents:
INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE: Roles for Women in Vedic Śrauta Ritual (STEPHANIE W. JAMISON) -- CHAPTER TWO: Tibetan Fairy Glimmerings: Dākinīs in Buddhist Spiritual Biography (VICTORIA KENNICK URUBSHUROW) -- CHAPTER THREE: Women, Earth, and the Goddess: A Śākta-Hindu Interpretation of Embodied Religion (KARTIKEYA C. PATEL) -- CHAPTER FOUR: Women in the Worship of the Great Goddess (HILLARY RODRIGUES) -- CHAPTER FIVE: Between Pestle and Mortar: Women in the Marathi Sant Tradition (VIDYUT AKLUJKAR) -- CHAPTER SIX: Śankara on the Salvation of Women and Śūdras (KATHERINE K. YOUNG) -- INDEX.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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