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The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: Tracy Pintchman
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-15 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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This book explores the rise of the Great Goddess by focusing on the development of saakti (creative energy), maya (objective illusion), and prakr(materiality) f
Guests at God's Wedding
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Tracy Pintchman
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-08-25 - Publisher: SUNY Press

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A fascinating look at women’s rituals honoring the god Krishna.
Encountering the Goddess
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Thomas B. Coburn
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-01-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press

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Coburn provides a fresh and careful translation from the Sanskrit of this fifteen-hundred-year-old text. Drawing on field work and literary evidence, he illumin
Reciting the Goddess
Language: en
Pages: 345
Authors: Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Reciting the Goddess presents the first critical study of the Svasthanivratakatha (SVK), a sixteenth-century Hindu narrative textual tradition. The extensive SV
Purifying the Earthly Body of God
Language: en
Pages: 380
Authors: Lance E. Nelson
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-01-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press

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An interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between religion and environment in Hinduism.