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Water and Womanhood (Paperback, New)
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Rivers in India are commonly associated with certain worldly
religious values: wealth, beauty, long life, good health, food,
love, and the birth of children. However, these "domestic" values
have been relatively neglected by Indologists, who have tended to
view India and Hinduism through the prism of poverty, misery,
asceticism, and themes of purity or pollution. Following recent
scholarship by arguing that the earthly pursuits are equally vital
to an understanding of popular Hinduism, Feldhaus examines the role
of these ideals in the religious meanings of rivers in Maharashtra,
a large region of western India. Drawing both on written religious
texts and on a wide range of oral, iconographic, and ritual
materials gathered in the course of field work in India, she shows
that these values, which are usually associated with women or
represented by goddesses, are an important motif in popular
religious practices and oral traditions associated with the rivers
of Maharashtra, and she presents the many different ways in which
rivers are imagined, enshrined, worshipped, and feared.
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