Onvoking goddesses
Subtitle: gender politics in Indian religion
By: edited by Nilima Chitgopekar.
Contributors: Chitgopekar, Nilima.
Publisher: Shakti Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Vedic literature -- History and criticism; Goddesses, Hindu -- India
Description: Contributed articles.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Indian goddesses, persevering and antinomian presences / Nilima Chitgopekar; title: Goddesses in the R̥gveda, an investigation / Kumkum Roy; title: Sexual politics and the cult of the mother goddesses in the Mahābhārata / Shalini Shah; title: The unfettered yoginīs / Nilima Chitgopekar; title: Imaging the goddess, a process in the identity formation of Śrīvaiṣṇava community / Ranjeeta Dutta; title: Mata, land, and line: female divinity and the forging of community in India / Nancy Auer Falk; title: Negotiating narak and writing destiny: the theology of bemata in dais' handling of birth / Janet Chawla.