Title: Invoking goddesses : gender politics in Indian religion /
Authors: Chitgopekar, Nilima.
Publisher: Shakti Books,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Vedic literature History and criticism.; Hindu goddesses Cult India.; Hindu goddesses India.
Abstract: Contributed articles.
Contents: Indian goddesses, persevering and antinomian presences / Nilima Chitgopekar -- Goddesses in the R̥gveda, an investigation / Kumkum Roy -- Sexual politics and the cult of the mother goddesses in the Mahābhārata / Shalini Shah -- The unfettered yoginīs / Nilima Chitgopekar -- Imaging the goddess, a process in the identity formation of Śrīvaiṣṇava community / Ranjeeta Dutta -- Mata, land, and line: female divinity and the forging of community in India / Nancy Auer Falk -- Negotiating narak and writing destiny: the theology of bemata in dais' handling of birth / Janet Chawla.