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| Title: | At the Feet of the Goddess (HB @ PB Price)
: The Divine Feminine in Local Hindu Religion |
| Author: | Lynn Foulston |
| ISBN: | 1845191951 : 9781845191955 |
| Illustrations: | colour photos |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 242 |
| Weight: | .551 Kg. |
| Published: | Sussex Academic Press - March 2002 |
| List Price: | 19.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Hinduism: Devotional theology & objects of veneration |
A study of goddess beliefs and practices in Indian culture.
"...Foulston's work stands out through its great attention to local details and differences between individual Indian goddesses, details relating to their diverse locations, their rich phenomenology, here documented by new visual evidence, their presence and power in people's lives, and the joyous celebration of their existence and influence through numerous rituals and festivities. It is joy to read this book..." -- Professor Ursula King, University of Bristol. "...Foulston has succeeded in putting together extensive textual and ethnographic research that elegantly testifies to the complexity of not only local goddess traditions in India but broader Hindu traditions as well." -- The Journal of Asian Studies. "...A meticulous and colourful description which details not only the variety of goddesses in the two settlements but also their attendant origin myths as told by informants and these myths' relation, when applicable, to texts." -- The Journal of Religion.
