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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Theology
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 obscure deity who is only known in a
particular rural locale. The origins of a goddess can be both
ancient-with many transitions or amalgamations with other cults
having occurred along the way-and very recent. While some have
tribal origins, others sprout up overnight due to a vivid dream.
Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess: Contemporary Iterations of
Hindu Divinities on the Move looks at the nature of how and why
goddesses are invented and reinvented historically in India and how
social hierarchy, gender differences, and modernity play roles in
these emerging religious phenomena.
The authors of the standard approach to Bonaventure's aesthetics
established the broad themes that continue to inform the current
interpretation of his philosophy, theology, and mysticism of
beauty: his definition of beauty and its status as a transcendental
of being, his description of the aesthetic experience, and the role
of that experience in the soul's ascent into God. Nevertheless,
they also introduced a series of pointed questions that remain
without adequate resolution in the current literature. Thomas J.
McKenna's book, Bonaventure's Aesthetics: The Delight of the Soul
in Its Ascent into God, provides a comprehensive analysis of
Bonaventure's aesthetics, the first to appear since Balthasar's
Herrlichkeit, and, in doing so, argues for a resolution to these
questions in the context of his principal aesthetic text, the
Itinerarium mentis in Deum.
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