At the Feet of the Goddess
The Divine Feminine in Local Hindu Religion
Seiten
2002
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-902210-44-5 (ISBN)
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-902210-44-5 (ISBN)
The feminine dimension of the Divine is omnipresent and alive in Hinduism. This work pays great attention to local details and differences between individual Indian goddesses, details relating to their diverse locations, their rich phenomenology, and their power in people's lives.
At the Feet of the Goddess embraces ritual, worship and iconography, rather than philosophy and metaphysics, in two communities. In each of these sites, as is common within many local communities across India, it is female deities that predominate. Although local worship is based on ritual and grounded in a tradition that may not be fully comprehended by its adherents, it is also partly based in, and is a reflection of, a more complex metaphysical undercurrent. Local goddesses, in particular, while representing anthropomorphized figures for the majority of their devotees, are concurrently the personifications of the abstract concept of sakti female divine energy.
At the Feet of the Goddess embraces ritual, worship and iconography, rather than philosophy and metaphysics, in two communities. In each of these sites, as is common within many local communities across India, it is female deities that predominate. Although local worship is based on ritual and grounded in a tradition that may not be fully comprehended by its adherents, it is also partly based in, and is a reflection of, a more complex metaphysical undercurrent. Local goddesses, in particular, while representing anthropomorphized figures for the majority of their devotees, are concurrently the personifications of the abstract concept of sakti female divine energy.
Contents: Foreword by Brian Swimme; Teilhard's Transforming Thought; The Stuff of the Universe; The Inside of Things; The Juvenile Earth; The Appearance of Life; The Expansion of Life; Mother Earth (Demeter); The Birth of Thought; The Deployment of the Noosphere; The Modern Earth; The Collective Way Out; Beyond the Collective: The Hyperpersonal; The Ultimate Earth; Epilogue: The Christian Phenomenon; Summary or Postface: The Essence of the Human Phenomenon; Appendix: Some Comments on the Place and Role of Evil in an Evolving World; Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.3.2002 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | colour photos |
| Verlagsort | Liverpool |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 551 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus |
| ISBN-10 | 1-902210-44-1 / 1902210441 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-902210-44-5 / 9781902210445 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
| Informationen gemäß Produktsicherheitsverordnung (GPSR) | |
| Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
aus dem Bereich
Spiritual Living for Today Based on India's Thousand Names of …
Buch | Softcover (2025)
Nilgiri Press (Verlag)
CHF 35,90
Unearthing and Enacting the Feelings of Nine Himalayan Hindu …
Buch | Hardcover (2025)
De Gruyter (Verlag)
CHF 142,00
