The Iconic Female

Bapat, Jayant Bhalchandra / Mabbett, Ian (Hrsg.):
The iconic female : goddesses of India, Nepal and Tibet / ed. by Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat and Ian Mabbett. - Clayton, Vic. (Australia) : Monash Asia Institute, 2008. - ca. 244 S.
ISBN 978-1-876924-66-9
AUS$ 44,95

Beschreibung
The energy of the goddess fills every facet of Indian life. To her devotees, the goddess appears in myriad forms: a mother, boon-giver, destroyer of evil, a divine lover, a protector and/or a bloodthirsty ogress. The more we discover about her, the more teasingly complex and multivalent the Devi appears. She is both constant and changing, loved and feared, worshipped and forgotten only to be re-discovered and worshipped. In this book, for the first time, ten Australian researchers working on many aspects of the Devi have come together and offered, in a single collection, new research on the divine female. This book is the beginning of a renewed quest for the iconic Devi who continues to emerge in her many, unpredictably powerful forms. [Verlagsinformation]

Herausgeber
JAYANT BAPAT (*1938), PhD (Organic Chemistry), PhD (Social Anthropology), is an honorary research fellow at the Monash Asia Institute. His current research interests niclude Hinduism, caste, temple architecture, and gods and goddesses of the Hindu pantheon. He is co-editor of Ethics and morality in a multicultural society (2006) and The iconic female: the goddesses of India, Nepal and Tibet.

IAN MABBETT (*1939), School of Historical Studies, Monash University. Profile page.

Quellen: Monash University Arts Faculty News; Amazon
Schlagwörter: Hinduismus; Buddhismus; Göttin; Devi; Religion