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Hindu goddesses : beliefs and practices / Lynn Foulston and Stuart Abbott.
- Title
- Hindu goddesses : beliefs and practices / Lynn Foulston and Stuart Abbott.
- Author
- Foulston, Lynn.
- Publication
- Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2009.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Abbott, Stuart.
- Description
- xii, 292 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Explores the diversity of Hindu goddesses and the variety of ways in which they are worshiped. Although they undoubtedly have ancient origins, Hindu goddesses and their worship is still very much a part of the fabric of religious engagement in India today. This book offers an introduction to a complex and often baffling field of study.
- Series Statement
- Sussex library of religious beliefs and practices
- Uniform Title
- Sussex library of religious beliefs and practices.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. 1. Beliefs -- Sakti : the divine feminine -- Goddesses in textual sources -- Goddess mythology -- Tantrism and Hindu goddesses -- pt. 2. Practices -- Goddess worship -- Goddess festivals -- Pilgrimage to the temples of the goddess -- The goddess in contemporary Hinduism.
- ISBN
- 9781902210438 (alk. paper)
- 1902210433 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008020443
- OCLC
- 227205926
- SCSB-12011341
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library