Reciting the Goddess

This thoroughly documented and expansive book is a brilliant and recommended read on non-Indian, local Hindu traditions and is a pioneer in Nepalese Hindu scholarship.

Auteur
Jessica Birkenholtz is an Assistant Professor of Religion at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.

Texte du rabat

Reciting the Goddess is the first book-length study of Nepal's goddess Svasthani and the popular Svasthanivratakatha textual tradition. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, it examines the making of Hinduism in Nepal, a history that is largely neglected in master narratives of Hinduism on the Indian subcontinent.

Contenu

• CHAPTER ONE Text, Ritual, Goddess: Hinduisms and Histories in Nepal

• CHAPTER TWO The Goddess of Place, Place of the Goddess

• CHAPTER THREE An Unexpected Archive: The Svasthanivratakatha

• CHAPTER FOUR The Making of Modern Hinduism in Medieval Nepal

• CHAPTER FIVE A Women's Tradition

• CHAPTER SIX Conclusion

• APPENDICES

• BIBLIOGRAPHY

• INDEX