Mutating goddesses : Bengal's laukika Hinduism and gender rights / Saswati Sengupta.
Sengupta, Saswati| Call Number | 294.52114095414 |
| Author | Sengupta, Saswati, author. |
| Title | Mutating goddesses : Bengal's laukika Hinduism and gender rights / Saswati Sengupta. |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (375 pages). |
| Series | Oxford scholarship online |
| Notes | This edition also issued in print: 2021. |
| Summary | 'Mutating Goddesses' traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities - Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi - from the fifteenth century to the present time. It focuses on the goddess-invested tradition of Bengal's Hinduism, and especially its laukika archive as opposed to the sastrik deriving from Sanskrit scriptures authorized by the Brahman, to argue for a historical evolution/devolution of divinities and the knotted correlation of gender, caste and class in the sanctioning of female subjectivities through goddess formation. |
| Subject | Hindu goddesses India Bengal. Male domination (Social structure) India Bengal. WORSHIP (HINDUISM) |
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| Summary | 'Mutating Goddesses' traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities - Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi - from the fifteenth century to the present time. It focuses on the goddess-invested tradition of Bengal's Hinduism, and especially its laukika archive as opposed to the sastrik deriving from Sanskrit scriptures authorized by the Brahman, to argue for a historical evolution/devolution of divinities and the knotted correlation of gender, caste and class in the sanctioning of female subjectivities through goddess formation. |
| Notes | This edition also issued in print: 2021. |
| Subject | Hindu goddesses India Bengal. Male domination (Social structure) India Bengal. WORSHIP (HINDUISM) |
| Multimedia |