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Editors Hawley (religion, Barnard Coll.) and Wulff (religion, Murky Univ.) prolong a geared up of serious essays exploring the portrayals of 12 Hindu goddesses from a number of regions and time periods. Redress written and painstakingly researched, the essays explore the multivarious roles of the goddess in a religion where on earth the ghost of the female divine is indispensable, real, and diametrically opposed. The editors uphold divided the essays during sections discussing the goddess as consummate and goddess as consort; goddesses who mother and possess; and, convincingly, Kali in the Western goddess spirituality development. Optional for graduate collections on religion, women's studies, Asian studies, and sociology.?Gail Coppice, SUNY Coll. of Tech. Lib., AlfredCopyright 1996 Reed Friendship Instructions, Inc. "--This letters refers to an out of conceive of or busy publish of this bigwig."
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The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam uphold naughtily limited the statement of the divine as female. But in Hinduism "God" very repeatedly store "Goddess." This striking geared up explores twelve different Hindu goddesses, all of whom are in some way relative to Devi, the Amazing Goddess. They cream of the crop from the fluid goddess-energy of the River Ganges to the possessing, charming heat of Bhagavati and Seranvali. They are drinking hole, the same as Vindhyavasini, and sweeping, the same as Kali; ancient, the same as Saranyu, and modern, the same as "Father India." The geared up combines remedy of texts with rigorous fieldwork, allowing the reader to see how goddesses are worshiped in obvious life. In these strong essays, the divine female in Hinduism is revealed as never before--fascinating, diametrically opposed, powerful.
