By Rachel Fell Mcdermott
ISBN-10: 0520232399
ISBN-13: 9780520232396
ISBN-10: 0520232402
ISBN-13: 9780520232402
ISBN-10: 1417522720
ISBN-13: 9781417522729
Encountering Kal? explores some of the most outstanding divinities the area has seen--the Hindu goddess Kal?. She is concurrently understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of formality ownership, a Tantric sexual accomplice, and an all-loving, compassionate mom. renowned and scholarly curiosity in her has been at the upward push within the West lately. Responding to this phenomenon, this quantity makes a speciality of the complexities fascinated by studying Kal? in either her indigenous South Asian settings and her more moderen Western incarnations. utilizing scriptural heritage, temple structure, political violence, feminist and psychoanalytic feedback, autobiographical mirrored image, and the goddess's contemporary guises on the web, the members pose questions correct to our knowing of Kal?, as they remove darkness from the issues and offers inherent in each act of cross-cultural interpretation.
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Ka¯lı¯ Ma¯yı¯ is an old woman, living in poverty, who acts as the priest in a small Ka¯lı¯ temple in Banaras. Although she is the catalyst for several transformative events in Gupta’s life, Ka¯lı¯ Ma¯yı¯ is the victim of a local goonda, and it is Gupta herself, in an enraged and sympathetic response, who embodies the Goddess’s compassionate revenge. Gupta concludes her chapter with a self-reflexive analysis of the shifting projections, identifications, and role reversals that took place between the Goddess, Ka¯lı¯ Ma¯yı¯, and herself, and considers what they might teach us about the dissonances between Western and South Asian understandings of Ka¯lı¯.
Willard R. Trask, 2d rev. ed. (1958; Bollingen series, 56, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), and Agehananda Bharati, The Tantric Tradition (London: Rider, 1965). 18. Philip S. Rawson, The Art of Tantra, rev. ed. (1973; London: Thames & Hud- 18 introducing ka¯ lı¯ studies son, 1978); and Ajit Mookerjee, Kali: The Feminine Force (London: Thames & Hudson, 1988). Other similar texts by the same authors include Rawson, Erotic Art of the East: The Sexual Theme in Oriental Painting and Sculpture (New York: Putnam, 1968) and Oriental Erotic Art (New York: A and W Publishers, 1981); and Mookerjee, Tantra Art: Its Philosophy and Physics (New Delhi: Ravi Kumar, 1966) and, with Madhu Khanna, The Tantric Way: Art, Science, Ritual (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1977).
J. Brill, 1976), pp. 53–97. 23. Psychoanalysis has been particularly central to the Western appropriation of Ramakrishna and goes back almost to the beginning of the Western tradition. Romain Rolland, one of Ramakrishna’s earliest Western biographers, was, for example, deeply influenced by Freud and used his studies of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda to nurture an important correspondence with Freud that helped generate what would become the psychoanalytic theory of mysticism. For this fascinating story and an astute historical analysis of it, see William B.
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