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The constant and changing faces of the goddess : goddess traditions of Asia /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: Claremont Graduate University, Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference
Otros Autores: Shimkhada, Deepak, Herman, Phyllis K.
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Issues in studying Mago, the great goddess of East Asia: primary sources, gynocentric history, and nationalism / Helen Hye-Sook Hwang
  • Dākinīs and Yoginīs: on the origin and development of an early medieval Indian Buddhist goddess tradition / David Gray
  • Sita Masala: from the Vedas to the kitchen / Phyllis K. Herman
  • Kannon: the goddess of compassion in Japan / Kenneth D. Lee
  • From Kuan Yin to Joan of Arc: female divinities in the Caodai pantheon / Janet Hoskins
  • Between Bodhisattva and Christian deity: Guanyin and the Virgin Mary in late Ming China / Gang Song
  • Meeting the goddess: religion, morality, and medicine in a fishing community in Hong Kong forty years ago / E.N. Anderson
  • She dances madly: towards a ritual political economy of the goddess / Piya Chatterjee
  • The politicization of an icon: Durga/Kali/Bharat Mata and her transformations / Mary-Ann Milford-Lutzker
  • Come one, come all, to the fair of the mother's transformations: some glimpses of Kali and her temples in West Bengal / June McDaniel
  • Lakshmi and Alakshmi: the Kojagari Lakshmi Vrata Katha of Bengal / Bidyut Mohanty
  • The goddess and ecological sensitivity: the cultivation of earth knowledge / Christopher Key Chapple
  • Goma: an embodiment of the goddess / Deepak Shimkhada
  • Sarasvati: goddess of no husband, no child / Małgorzata (Margaret) Kruszewska
  • The modern legend of Miaoshan: the development of the Sangha of vegetarian nuns in China / Chia-Lan Chang
  • The body of the goddess, eco-awareness and embodiment in Hindu myth and romance / Sthaneshwar Timalsina.