[PDF.00mu] When the World Becomes Female: Guises of a South Indian Goddess

When the World Becomes Female: Guises of a South Indian Goddess

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 | #1965655 in Books |  Indiana University Press |  2013-07-23 |  2013-07-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.90 x6.00l,1.01 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| This book is an amazing and thought provoking narrative that will give insight to ...|By Customer|This book is an amazing and thought provoking narrative that will give insight to anyone interested in the goddess traditions of India, whether from an academic or spiritual perspective or background you are coming, this book is sure to expand your awareness.| ||"Carefully crafted.... Through these rituals, stories and lives, the author reveals new ways of comprehending gender both at the cosmological and human level." ―Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University

|"Flueckiger's rich and colorful descriptions

During the goddess Gangamma’s festival in the town of Tirupati, lower-caste men take guises of the goddess, and the streets are filled with men wearing saris, braids, and female jewelry. By contrast, women participate by intensifying the rituals they perform for Gangamma throughout the year, such as cooking and offering food. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger argues that within the festival ultimate reality is imagined as female and women identify with the goddess, wh...

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