Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess (eBook)

Sree Padma is executive director of the Inter-Collegiate Sri Lanka Education (ISLE) Program and research assistant professor in Asian studies at Bowdoin College.

Chapter 1: Goddesses That Dwell On Earth: A Folk Paradigm of Divine Female MultiplicityBrenda BeckChapter 2: Constructing Goddess Worship: Colonial Ethnographic and Public Health Discourses in South IndiaPerundevi SrinivasanChapter 3: From Local Goddess to Locale Goddess: Karumariamman as Divine Mother at a North American Hindu TempleTracy PintchmanChapter 4: An Indentured Goddess: Displacement of a Village Deity from Colonial India to CeylonSasi Kumar BalasundaramChapter 5: Creating Realities, Communicating Dreams, Constructing Temple Lore: Anklets for the Goddess’ feet at ThirumeeyachurVasudha NarayananChapter 6: Traveling Goddess– A Study of Uppalamma in Andhra PradeshSree PadmaChapter 7: The Leap of the Limping Goddess: Aai Khodiyar of GujaratNeelima Shukla-BhattChapter 8: Tantric Visions, Local Manifestations: The Cult Centre of Chinnamasta at Rajrappa, JharkhandR. MahalakshmiChapter 9: The Goddess on the Hill: The (Re)invention of a local goddess as CāmuṇḍīCaleb SimmonsChapter 10: Communicating the Local Discursively: Devi, the Divine feminine as a Contemporary Symbol for Grassroots Feminist PoliticsPriya Kapoor