Introduction: Identity Construction and the Hindu Great Goddess
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Tracy Pintchman
The Tantric and Vedantic Identity of the Great Goddess in the Devi Gita of the Devi-Bhagavata Purana
19
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C. Mackenzie Brown
Mahadevi as Mother: The Oriya Hindu Vision of Reality
37
(18)
Usha Menon
Ambiguous and Definitive: The Greatness of Goddess Vaisno Devi
55
(22)
Mark Edwin Rohe
The Goddess as Fount of the Universe: Shared Visions and Negotiated Allegiances in Puranic Accounts of Cosmogenesis
77
(16)
Tracy Pintchman
Waves of Beauty, Rivers of Blood: Constructing the Goddess in Kerala
93
(22)
Sarah Caldwell
From Village to City: Transforming Goddesses in Urban Andhra Pradesh
115
(30)
Sree Padma
Reconstructing the Split Goddess as Sakti in a Tamil Village
145
(26)
Elaine Craddock
Perfecting the Mother's Silence: Dream, Devotion, and Family in the Deification of Sharada Devi
171
(28)
Jeffrey J. Kripal
Goddesses and the Goddess in Hinduism: Constructing the Goddess through Religious Experience
199
(14)
Kathleen M. Erndl
What Is a ``Goddess'' and What Does It Mean to ``Construct'' One?
213
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Thomas B. Coburn
Glossary
223
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References
227
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Contributors
243
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Index
247
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