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Reciting the goddess : narratives of place and the making of Hinduism in Nepal / Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz.
LIBRA BL1225.S8652 B57 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Birkenholtz, Jessica Vantine, 1975- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Svasthani (Hindu deity)--Cult--Nepal.
- Svasthani (Hindu deity).
- Hindu gods--Nepal.
- Hindu gods.
- Hinduism--Nepal.
- Hinduism.
- Nepal.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 321 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Hinduisms and histories in Nepal
- The goddess of place, place of the goddess
- An unexpected archive: the Svasthānīvratakathā
- The making of modern Hinduism in medieval Nepal
- A women's tradition
- Narratives of place.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-308) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199341160
- 0199341168
- 9780190844561
- 0190844566
- OCLC:
- 1000584895
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