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oapen-20.500.12657-314892021-11-04T14:07:36Z Conceiving the Goddess Bapat, Jayant Bhalchandra Mabbett, Ian Theology goddesses Indic goddesses women and religion religious appropriation goddess appropriation Chinnamastā’ Durgā Devī Śaktipīṭha Kuladaivata Purāṇic narrative Ravidās Gaṅgā Jainism Koli people Puja (Hinduism) Shiva bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRL Aspects of religion (non-Christian) Conceiving 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. 2017-03-01 23:55:55 2020-01-27 14:42:04 2020-04-01T13:37:12Z 2020-04-01T13:37:12Z 2016 book 627651 OCN: 967589463 9781925377613 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31489 eng Monash Asia Series application/pdf n/a 627651.pdf Monash University Publishing 10.26530/oapen_627651 100430 10.26530/oapen_627651 ca6f5f25-1581-4668-a187-8ddef959496d b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781925377613 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Clayton, Victoria, Australia 100430 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Conceiving 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.
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