Encountering Kali
In the Margins, at the Center, in the West
The editors have assembled a South Asian/History of Religions dream team, and the result is a book that captures the sexy, gory power of the dark goddess who is the most exciting of all Hindu deities-and perhaps the most controversial and notorious of all deities. Academically profound and theoretically subtle, these essays are also vivid and juicy.-Wendy Doniger, author of The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and MasqueradeIf any subject ever called for a book of many parts, it is Kali. These original and provocative essays, well chosen and thoughtfully organized, point to all sides of the Goddess's character. The result is a sharp and challenging boo…
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Weitere Autoren: Kripal, Jeffrey J. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-520-23240-2
- EAN: 9780520232402
- Produktnummer: 9545334
- Verlag: University of California Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 339 S.
- Masse: H22.7 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.1 cm 510 g
- Abbildungen: 14 b-w photographs, 15 line illustrations, 1 map
- Gewicht: 510
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Rachel Fell McDermott is Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College and author of Mother of My Heart, Daughter of My Dreams: Kali and Uma in the Devotional Poetry of Bengal (2001) and Singing to the Goddess: Poems to Kali and Uma from Bengal (2001). Jeffrey J. Kripal is the Lynette S. Autry Associate Professor in the Humanities at Rice University and author most recently of Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism (2001).
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