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AT THE FEET OF THE GODDESS
THE DIVINE FEMININE IN LOCAL HINDU RELIGION |
| By: |
Lynn Foulston |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£95.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1902210441 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781902210445 |
| Publisher: |
SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2002 |
| Pages: |
242 |
| Description: |
The feminine dimension of the Divine is omnipresent and alive in Hinduism. This work pays great attention to local details and differences between individual Indian goddesses, details relating to their diverse locations, their rich phenomenology, and their power in people's lives. |
| Synopsis: |
At the Feet of the Goddess embraces ritual, worship and iconography, rather than philosophy and metaphysics, in two communities. In each of these sites, as is common within many local communities across India, it is female deities that predominate. Although local worship is based on ritual and grounded in a tradition that may not be fully comprehended by its adherents, it is also partly based in, and is a reflection of, a more complex metaphysical undercurrent. Local goddesses, in particular, while representing anthropomorphized figures for the majority of their devotees, are concurrently the personifications of the abstract concept of sakti female divine energy. |
| Illustrations: |
colour photos |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Sussex Academic Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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