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Goddess beyond boundaries : worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple / Tracy Pintchman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pintchman, Tracy, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hindu goddesses--Michigan--Pontiac.
- Hindu goddesses.
- Hinduism--Michigan--Pontiac.
- Hinduism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Tracy Pintchman sheds light on the spiritual creativity and religious life of the Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan. Drawing on 15 years of field research, Pintchman reveals how Karumariamman, the goddess honoured by the temple, embodies the border-and-boundary-crossing dynamics of the lives of many of the congregants who worship at her temple, which in turn has become a site of religious innovation.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Goddess Beyond Boundaries
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliterations, Quotations, and Names
- Introduction
- Callings
- The Hindu Goddess in Scripture, in the World, and in Pontiac
- Why This Book?
- The Arrangement of Chapters
- 1. Geographic Crossings/Earth
- Beginnings
- Mariamman and Karumariamman in India
- Karumariamman and Her Temple in Thiruverkadu
- Goddess on the Move: The Tamil Karumariamman Beyond Thiruverkadu
- Crossings: A Passage to Michigan
- Dwellings: The Parashakthi Temple as Translocal Sacred Space
- 2. Devotional Crossings/Water
- Frictions and Flows
- Jane and Family
- Ven Johnson
- Laura
- A. N. K. Swamy and Dr. P. Pandian (a.k.a. Kaviyogi Bacon)
- Ravi
- Transcendent Lives and Translocal Shaktiscapes
- 3. Material Crossings/Fire
- Matter that Matters
- Murtis (Temple Images) and Yantras
- The Goddess's Shaligrams
- The Rajagopuram and Shakti Garbha
- Material Theology at the Parashakthi Temple
- 4. Ritual Crossings/Wind
- Performing Religion
- Rites at the Parashakthi Temple
- Pratinidhi Pilgrimage: The Ingathering of Shakti
- Rising from the Fire: Divine Mother Returns Home
- 5. Divine Crossings/Space
- Frontiers and Maps
- The Impersonal Goddess: Goddess as Space, Vibration, Light, and Sound
- Goddess as Metaphor
- The Personal Goddess: Goddess as Healer, Caretaker, and Spiritual Guide
- Rohan
- Chandran
- Padmini
- Postscript: On the Parashakthi Temple as a "Diaspora" Temple
- Endings
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 5, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-067305-2
- 0-19-067303-6
- OCLC:
- 1450903853
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