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The Feminine Sacred in South Asia

The Feminine Sacred in South Asia

Tambs-Lyche, Harald

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Comparative ReligionAnthropologyGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 8173042462
ISBN13: 9788173042461
Publisher: Manohar Books
Published: Jan 20 2025
Pages: 148
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
South Asia is the only major region where the 'Great Goddess' is still a living reality for believers yet its society remains male-dominated. Drawing their examples from ritual practices, myths, and sacred texts the contributors to this volume discuss the place of the feminine within the sacred sphere of South Asian religion. The theme is full of contradictions, for the impurity of woman must be held against the powers she incarnates, and the religious status of these powers is an old theme of debate among Hindu and Buddhist thinkers. Finally, the feminine pole in religious thought cannot simply be equated with human womanhood - yet the very presence of feminity in the sacred sphere contrasts with its exclusion from scriptural Islam or from protestantism, and offers, perhaps, to women, a mode of religious expression in an idiom where?gender?is?a?central?paradigm?of?thought.

This volume then, contributing to the debate on feminity in South Asian religion, should also be of interest to scholars dealing with gender in?a?broader?perspective.

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