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The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess - Hadimba, Her Devotees, and Religion in Rapid Change (Hardcover)
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The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess - Hadimba, Her Devotees, and Religion in Rapid Change (Hardcover)
Series: AAR Religion, Culture, and History
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Hadimba is 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 Gods. As the book shows, Hadimba is a goddess whose
vitality reveals itself in her devotees' rapidly changing
encounters with local and far from local players, powers, and
ideas. These include invading royal forces, colonial forms of
knowledge, and more recently the onslaught of modernity,
capitalism, tourism, and ecological change. Hadimba has provided
her worshipers with discursive, ritual, and ideological arenas
within which they reflect on, debate, give meaning to, and
sometimes resist these changing realities, and she herself has been
transformed in the process. Drawing on diverse ethnographic and
textual materials gathered in the region from 2009 to 2017, 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
employs an interdisciplinary approach to tell the story of Hadimba
from the ground up, or rather, from the center out, portraying 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.
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