Nine nights of the goddess : the Navarātri festival in South Asia / edited by Caleb Simmons, Moumita Sen, and Hillary Rodrigues.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simmons, Caleb, editor.

Sen, Moumita, editor.

Rodrigues, Hillary, 1953- editor.

Series:

SUNY series in Hindu studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Durgā-pūjā (Hindu festival)--South Asia.

Durgā-pūjā (Hindu festival).

Fasts and feasts--Hinduism.

Fasts and feasts.

Durg (Hindu deity).

Durg.

South Asia.

Physical Description:

xiii, 359 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]

Contents:

Introduction: movements of Navaratri / Caleb Simmons, Moumita Sen

The splendor of the sun: brightening the bridge between Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa and Devī Māhātmya in light of Navarātri ritual timing / Raj Balkaran

Which Durgā? What Navarātra? Remarks on reconfigurations of royal rituals in the Kathmandu Valley / Astrid Zotter

The king and the Yadu Line: performing lineage through Oasara in nineteenth-century Mysore / Caleb Simmons

Dasara and the selective decline of sacrificial polity in a former princely state of Odisha / Uwe Skoda

Politics, religion, and art in the Durgā Pujā of West Bengal / Moumita Sen

Durgā Pujā committees: community origin and transformed mediatized practices employing social media / Xenia Zeiler

Navaratri in Benares: narrative structures and social realities / Silje Lyngar Einarsen

Dolls and demons: the materiality of Navaratri / Ina Marie Lunde Ilkama

Ritual complementarity and difference : Navarātri and Vijayadaśamī in Kāñcipuram / Ute Hüsken

Bengali Durgā Pujā: procedures and symbolism / Hillary Rodrigues

The internal Navarātri: Sarkar Baba of Benares and the Goddess within / Jishnu Shankar

Kolus, caste, and class: Navarātri as a site for ritual and social change in urban South India / Nicole A. Wilson

Display shows, display tells: the aesthetics of memory during Pommai Kolu / Deeksha Sivakumar

Royal Darbar and domestic kolus: social order, creation, procreation, and re-creation / Vasudha Narayanan

Navarātra and Kanyā Pujā: the worship of girls as representatives of the Goddess in Northwest India / Brigitte Luchesi

Conclusion / Hillary Rodrigues.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438470696

143847069X

OCLC:

1038021861

Publisher Number:

99977688785