Conceiving The Goddess: Transformation And Appropriation In Indic Religions

ISBN: 9781925377309 出版年：2016 页码：314 Mabbett, Ian Monash University Publishing

Conceiving the Goddess is an exploration of goddess cults in South Asia that embodies research on South Asian goddesses in various disciplines. The theme running through all the contributions, with their multiple approaches and points of view, is the concept of appropriation, whereby one religious group adopts a religious belief or practice not formerly its own. What is the motivation behind this? Are such actions attempts to dominate, or to resist the domination of others, or to adapt to changing social circumstances 鈥?or perhaps simply to enrich the religious experience of a group members? In examining these questions, Conceiving the Goddess considers a range of settings: a Jain goddess lurking in a Brahminical temple, the fraught relationship between the humble Cam膩r caste and the river goddess Ga峁単膩, the mutual appropriation of disciple and goddess in the tantric exercises of Kashmiri 艢aivism, and the alarming self-decapitation of the fierce goddess Chinnamast膩.