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The Goddess in India
Language: en
Pages: 176
Authors: Devdutt Pattanaik
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-09-01 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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The first exhaustive collection of goddess mythologies from India. •Explores the evolution of goddess worship in India over 4,000 years. •Stunning color pho
Devī
Language: en
Pages: 380
Authors: John Stratton Hawley
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have severely limited the portrayal of the divine as feminine. But in Hinduism "God" very often m
Beauty, Power and Grace
Language: en
Pages: 451
Authors: Krishna Dharma
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-05-02 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Replete with inspired illustrations by award-winning artists B.G. Sharma and Mahaveer Swami, Beauty, Power & Grace features Krishna Dharma’s dramatic retellin
Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Sree Padma
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-03 - Publisher: Lexington Books

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Popular religion in village India is overwhelmingly dominated by goddess worship. Goddesses can be nationally well-known like Durga or Kali, or they can be an o
The Goddess and the Nation
Language: en
Pages: 402
Authors: Sumathi Ramaswamy
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-09 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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Making the case for a new kind of visual history, The Goddess and the Nation charts the pictorial life and career of Bharat Mata, “Mother India,” the Indian