Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West by McDermott, Rachel Fell

Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520232402)

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Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West by McDermott, Rachel Fell

Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West

$34.95
Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West by McDermott, Rachel Fell

Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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Encountering Kali explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen-the Hindu goddess Kali. 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 volume focuses on the complexities involved in interpreting Kali 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 contributors pose questions relevant to our understanding of Kali, as they illuminate the problems and promises inherent in every act of cross-cultural interpretation.

Author: Rachel Fell McDermott
ISBN-10: 0520232402
ISBN-13: 9780520232402
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2003
Pages: 339
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.86h x 6.36w x 0.88d

Review Citation(s):
Women's Review of Books 01/01/2004 pg. 18
By Rachel Fell McDermott
By Rachel Fell McDermott
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Rachel Fell McDermott is Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College and author of Mother of My Heart, Daughter of My Dreams: Kali and Uma in the Devotional Poetry of Bengal (2001) and Singing to the Goddess: Poems to Kali and Uma from Bengal (2001). Jeffrey J. Kripal is the Lynette S. Autry Associate Professor in the Humanities at Rice University and author most recently of Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism (2001).

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