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BL
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702613
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b524802
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Seeking Mahādevī : : constructing the indentities of the Hindu Great Goddess /\ edited by Tracy Pintchman
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, c2001.
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xiii, 254 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm.
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| ISBN
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0791450074 (alk. paper)
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: 0791450082 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780791450079 (alk. paper)
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: 9780791450086 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-241) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Identity Construction and the Hindu Great Goddess / Tracy Pintchman -- The Tantric and Vedantic Identity of the Great Goddess in the Devi Gita of the Devi-Bhagavata Purana / C. Mackenzie Brown -- Mahadevi as Mother: The Oriya Hindu Vision of Reality / Usha Menon -- Ambiguous and Definitive: The Greatness of Goddess Vaisno Devi / Mark Edwin Rohe -- The Goddess as Fount of the Universe: Shared Visions and Negotiated Allegiances in Puranic Accounts of Cosmogenesis / Tracy Pintchman -- Waves of Beauty, Rivers of Blood: Constructing the Goddess in Kerala / Sarah Caldwell -- From Village to City: Transforming Goddesses in Urban Andhra Pradesh / Sree Padma -- Reconstructing the Split Goddess as Sakti in a Tamil Village / Elaine Craddock -- Perfecting the Mother's Silence: Dream, Devotion, and Family in the Deification of Sharada Devi / Jeffrey J. Kripal -- Goddesses and the Goddess in Hinduism: Constructing the Goddess through Religious Experience / Kathleen M. Erndl -- What Is a "Goddess" and What Does It Mean to "Construct" One? / Thomas B. Coburn.
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Hindu goddesses.
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| LC Classification
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BL1216.2.S46 2001
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| Added Entry
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Pintchman, Tracy.
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