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Description:South Asia is the only major region where the “Great Goddess” is still a living reality for believers - yet its society remains male-dominated. Drawing their examples from ritual practice, myth, and sacred texts the contributors to this volume discuss the place of the feminine within the sacred sphere of South Asian religion. The theme is full of contradictions, for the impurity of woman must be held against the powers she incarnates, and the religious status of these powers is an old theme of debate among Hindu and Buddhist thinkers. Finally, the feminine pole in religious thought cannot simply be equated with human womanhood. Yet the very presence of femininity in the sacred sphere contrasts with its exclusion from scriptural Islam or from Protestantism, and offers, perhaps, to women a mode of religious expression in an idiom where gender is a central paradigm of thought. This volume then, contributing to the debate on femininity in South Asian religion, should also be of interest to scholars dealing with gender in a broader perspective.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Feminine Sacred in South Asia. To get started finding The Feminine Sacred in South Asia, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Manohar Publishers & Distributors

Release: 2004

ISBN: 8173042462

Description: South Asia is the only major region where the “Great Goddess” is still a living reality for believers - yet its society remains male-dominated. Drawing their examples from ritual practice, myth, and sacred texts the contributors to this volume discuss the place of the feminine within the sacred sphere of South Asian religion. The theme is full of contradictions, for the impurity of woman must be held against the powers she incarnates, and the religious status of these powers is an old theme of debate among Hindu and Buddhist thinkers. Finally, the feminine pole in religious thought cannot simply be equated with human womanhood. Yet the very presence of femininity in the sacred sphere contrasts with its exclusion from scriptural Islam or from Protestantism, and offers, perhaps, to women a mode of religious expression in an idiom where gender is a central paradigm of thought. This volume then, contributing to the debate on femininity in South Asian religion, should also be of interest to scholars dealing with gender in a broader perspective.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Feminine Sacred in South Asia. To get started finding The Feminine Sacred in South Asia, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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