02783 am 22006133u 450 991015617650332120220530044713.01-925377-60-11-925377-31-8(CKB)3710000000985437(MiAaPQ)EBC4773014(MiAaPQ)EBC5437544(OCoLC)967589463(ScCtBLL)22d35042-ffe4-4b8c-8156-525da273c219(EXLCZ)99371000000098543720180801d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierConceiving the goddess transformation and appropriation in Indic religions /edited by Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat and Ian MabbettClayton, Victoria, Australia :Monash University Publishing,[2017]©20171 online resource (314 pages) illustrations, photographs1-925377-61-X 1-925377-30-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Goddesses, IndicSouth AsiaElectronic books.women and religionChinnamastā’DurgāDevīŚaktipīṭhaKuladaivataPurāṇic narrativeRavidāsGaṅgāJainismPuja (Hinduism)ShivaGoddesses, Indic294.082Bapat Jayant Bhalchandra1938-Mabbett Ian W.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910156176503321Conceiving the goddess1988323UNINA