Encountering Kali in the margins, at the center, in the West /
| Other Authors: | McDermott, Rachel Fell., Kripal, Jeffrey J. 1962- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2003.
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| Physical Description: |
xviii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introducing Kālī studies / Jeffrey J. Kripal and Rachel Fell McDermott
- Kālī / David R. Kinsley
- Kālī the terrific and her tests: the Śākta devotionalism of the Mahābhāgavata Purāṇa / Patricia Dold
- The domestication of a goddess: caraṇa-tīrtha kālīghāṭ, the mahāpīṭha of Kālī / Sanjukta Gupta
- Dominating Kālī: Hindu family values and tantric power / Usha Menon and Richard A. Shweder
- Kāḷi in a context of terror: the tasks of a goddess in Sri Lanka's civil war / Patricia Lawrence
- Kālī Māyī: myth and reality in a Banaras ghetto / Roxanne Kamayani Gupta
- Wrestling with Kālī: South Asian and British constructions of the dark goddess / Cynthia Ann Humes
- "India's darkest heart": Kālī in the colonial imagination / Hugh B. Urban
- Why the Tāntrika is a hero: Kālī in the psychoanalytic tradition / Jeffrey J. Kripal
- Doing the mother's Caribbean work: on shakti and society in contemporary Trinidad / Keith E. McNeal
- Margins at the center: tracing Kālī through time, space, and culture / Sarah Caldwell
- Kālī's new frontiers: a Hindu goddess on the internet / Rachel Fell McDermott
- Appendix: documentary film and video resources for teaching on Kālī and fierce goddesses / Sarah Caldwell.