Encountering Kālī: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West
Encountering Kālī: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West
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Abstract
This book explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen—the Hindu goddess Kālī. She is simultaneously understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of ritual possession, a Tantric sexual partner, and an all-loving, compassionate Mother. Popular and scholarly interest in her has been on the rise in the West in recent years. Responding to this phenomenon, this book focuses on the complexities involved in interpreting Kālī in both her indigenous South Asian settings and her more recent Western incarnations. Using scriptural history, temple architecture, political violence, feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, autobiographical reflection, and the goddess's recent guises on the Internet, the chapters pose questions relevant to our understanding of Kālī, as they illuminate the problems and promises inherent in every act of cross-cultural interpretation.
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Front Matter
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Introducing Kālī Studies
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part i Kālī in the Texts and Contexts of South Asia
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Kālī
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Kālī the Terrific and Her Tests: The Śākta Devotionalism of the Mahābhāgavata Purāṇa
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The Domestication of a Goddess: Caraṇa-tῑrtha Kā lῑghāṭ, the Mahā pῑṭha of Kālῑ
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Dominating Kālī: Hindu Family Values and Tantric Power
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Kāḷi in a Context of Terror: The Tasks of a Goddess in Sri Lanka's Civil War
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Kālī
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part ii Kālī In Western Settings, Western Discourses
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Wrestling With Kālī: South Asian and British Constructions of the Dark Goddess
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“india's Darkest Heart”: Kālī in the Colonial Imagination
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Why the Tāntrika is a Hero: Kālī in the Psychoanalytic Tradition
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Doing the Mother's Caribbean Work: On Shaktiand Society in Contemporary Trinidad
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Margins at the Center: Tracing Kālī through Time, Space, and Culture
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Kālī's New Frontiers: A Hindu Goddess on the Internet
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Wrestling With Kālī: South Asian and British Constructions of the Dark Goddess
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End Matter
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