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Mutating goddesses : Bengal's laukika Hinduism and gender rights / Saswati Sengupta.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sengupta, Saswati, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hindu goddesses--India--Bengal.
- Hindu goddesses.
- Male domination (Social structure)--India--Bengal.
- Male domination (Social structure).
- Worship (Hinduism).
- India--Bengal.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (375 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- 'Mutating Goddesses' traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities - Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi - from the fifteenth century to the present time. It focuses on the goddess-invested tradition of Bengal's Hinduism, and especially its laukika archive as opposed to the sastrik deriving from Sanskrit scriptures authorized by the Brahman, to argue for a historical evolution/devolution of divinities and the knotted correlation of gender, caste and class in the sanctioning of female subjectivities through goddess formation.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2021.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 9, 2020).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-099325-1
- 0-19-099326-X
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