Encountering Kali In the Margins, at the Center, in the West

Name: Encountering Kali In the Margins, at the Center, in the West
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ISBN: 9780520232402

ISBN-10: 0520232402

ISBN-13: 9780520232402

Edition: 2003

Authors: Rachel Fell McDermott, Jeffrey J. Kripal

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Encountering Kal explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen--the Hindu goddess Kal. She is simultaneously understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of ritual possession, a Tantric sexual partner, and an all-loving, compassionate Mother. Popular and scholarly interest in her has been on the rise in the West in recent years. Responding to this phenomenon, this volume focuses on the complexities involved in interpreting Kal in both her indigenous South Asian settings and her more recent Western incarnations. Using scriptural history, temple architecture, political violence, feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, autobiographical reflection, and the goddess's…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/5/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 339
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

William Echard is Assistant Professor in the Department of Music and Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


About the Cover Art and Chapter Silhouettes


Notes on Transliteration Introducing Kali Studies



Kali In The Texts And Contexts Of South Asia



Kali



Kali the Terrific and Her Tests: The Sakta Devotionalism of theMahabhagavata Purana



The Domestication of a Goddess:Carana-tirthaKalighat, theMahapithaof Kali



Dominating Kali: Hindu Family Values and Tantric Power



Kali in a Context of Terror: The Tasks of a Goddess in Sri Lanka's Civil War



Kali Mayi: Myth and Reality in a Banaras Ghetto



Kali In Western Settings, Western Discourses



Wrestling with Kali: South Asian and British Constructions of the Dark Goddess



"India's Darkest Heart": Kali in the Colonial Imagination



Why the Tantrika Is a Hero: Kali in the Psychoanalytic Tradition



Doing the Mother's Caribbean Work: OnShaktiand Society in Contemporary Trinidad



Margins at the Center: Tracing Kali through Time, Space, and Culture



Kali's New Frontiers: A Hindu Goddess on the Internet


Appendix: Documentary Film and Video Resources for Teaching on Kali and Fierce Goddesses Sarah Caldwell


Contributors


Select Bibliography


Index