Encountering Kālī ; in the margins, at the center, in the West / edited by Rachel Fell McDermott and Jeffrey J. Kripal.
Contributor(s): McDermott, Rachel Fell
| Kripal, Jeffrey J. (Jeffrey John)
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TextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003Description: xviii, 321 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0520232402 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0520232399 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Kālī (Hindu deity)DDC classification: 294.5/2114 LOC classification: BL1225.K3 | E62 2003Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introducing Kālī studies / Jeffrey J. Kripal and Rachel Fell McDermott -- Kālī / David R. Kinsley -- Kālī the terrific and her tests: the Śākta devotionalism of the Mahābhāgavata Purāṇa / Patricia Dold -- The domestication of a goddess: caraṇatīrtha Kālīghāṭ, the mahāpīṭha of Kālī / Sanjukta Gupta -- Dominating Kālī: Hindu family values and tantric power / Usha Menon and Richard A. Shweder -- Kālī in a context of terror: the tasks of a goddess in Sri Lanka's civil war / Patricia Lawrence -- Kālī Māyī: myth and reality in a Banaras ghetto / Roxanne Kamayani Gupta -- Wrestling with Kālī: South Asian and British constructions of the Dark Goddess / Cynthia Ann Humes -- "India's darkest heart": Kālī in the colonial imagination / Hugh B. Urban -- Why the Tāntrika is a hero: Kālī in the psychoanalytic tradition / Jeffrey J. Kripal -- Doing the Mother's Carribbean work: on shakti and society in contemporary Trinidad / Keith E. McNeal -- Margins at the center: tracing Kālī through time, space, and culture / Sarah Caldwell -- Kālī's new frontiers: a Hindu goddess on the Internet / Rachel Fell McDermott -- Appendix: documentary film and video resources for teaching on Kālī and fierce goddesses / Sarah Caldwell.