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Author Halperin, Ehud, author.

Title The many faces of a Himalayan goddess : Haḍimbā, her devotees, and religion in rapid change / Ehud Halperin
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 270 pages)
Series AAR religion, culture, and history
Religion, culture, and history series.
Contents Getting there: the land of the gods -- Assembling the ritual core: Haḍimbā as a complex agent -- Narrating the local web of associations: the goddess of many faces -- Encountering epic India: Haḍimbā and the Mahabharata -- Negotiating national Hinduism: the controversy over blood sacrifice -- Confronting the global: Haḍimbā and climate change
Summary "This book offers a portrait of Haḍimbā, a primary village goddess in the Kullu Valley of the West Indian Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, a rural area known as the Land of God. Drawing on diverse ethnographic and textual materials The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess is rich with myths and tales, accounts of dramatic rituals and festivals, and descriptions of everyday life in the celebrated but remote Kullu Valley. The book portrays the goddess in varying contexts that radiate outward from her temple to local, regional, national, and indeed global spheres. The result is an important contribution to the study of Indian village goddesses, lived Hinduism, Himalayan Hinduism, and the rapidly growing field of religion and ecology"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Significant Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2012, titled Haḍimbā becoming herself : a Himalayan goddess in change
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Hiḍimbā (Hindu mythological character)
Hiḍimbā (Hindu mythological character)
Hindu goddesses -- India -- Himachal Pradesh
Hindu goddesses
Himachal Pradesh (India) -- Religious life and customs
India -- Himachal Pradesh
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780190913601
0190913606