Woodslane | Book - 9780814736197

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ISBN-13: 9780814736197
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by Professor of Religion Alf Hiltebeitel, Edited by Kathleen M Erndl
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Local release date: 01/11/2000
Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 287 pages Weight: 612g
Categories: Theology [HRLB]Gender studies: women [JFSJ1]South East Asia [1FM]

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Google Preview: What is the impact of powerful female deities - their images, projections, textuality and history - on the social standing and psychological health of women? Do they empower women, or serve the interests of the patriarchal culture? This volume looks at the goddesses of South Asia to address these questions directly. Not a book about a single goddess or even about a variety of South Asian goddesses, the book raises questions about images of deities as symbols and the ways in which they function. Contributors discuss contemporary Indian women who have embraced goddesses as spiritually and socially liberating, as well as the seeming contradictions between the power of Indian goddesses and the lives of Indian women. They also explore such topics as the element of male desire in the embodiment of female deities, the question of who speaks for the goddesses, and the politics and theology of Western feminist use of Hindu and Buddhist goddesses as models for their feminist reflections.; ALF HILTEBEITEL is Professor of Religion and Director of the Human Sciences Program at George Washington University. His books include Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupad. KATHLEEN M. ERNDL is Associate Professor of Religion at Florida State University and author of Victory to the Mother: The Hindu Goddess of Northwest India in Myth, Ritual, and Symbol.; Google Preview content