By Arun Gupto
In South Asia goddesses are conceptualized and worshipped in a desirable variety of types — from cosmic beings to bacterial manifestations, from human-like appearances to creatures with animal and bug semblances. This booklet maps the varied identities of goddesses via metaphors of grace, rage and data, and gives an in-depth perception into femininity, sexual politics, ritual worships, faith, ecology and gender. Grace manifests as motherly sublimity, warring protectors, and ranging personifications of sexuality. Rage encapsulates the worried points of goddesses and self sufficient identities of girls. wisdom inspires institutions with order, cause and mind in conflating gendered binaries of body/mind and nature/culture. the amount explores how those deity attributes are expressed and embedded via anthropomorphic in addition to inorganic different types of nature, attractive girls, multi-legged and many-armed animals, epistemic selves, demonic beings, glamorous personifications as additionally ugly sub-humans.
A methodological mixture of serious idea, mythological and philosophical innovations, in addition to well known ethnographic narratives and lived stories, this monograph will vastly curiosity students and researchers of spiritual reviews, cultural reviews, folklore, paintings, literature, sociology and gender experiences, particularly these drawn to Nepal and Hinduism.
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