Reciting the Goddess

Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal

Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

344 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-934116-0 (ISBN)

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Reciting the Goddess is the first book-length study of Nepal's goddess Svasthani and the popular Svasthanivratakatha textual tradition. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, it examines the making of Hinduism in Nepal, a history that is largely neglected in master narratives of Hinduism on the Indian subcontinent.

Reciting the Goddess is the first book-length study of Nepal's goddess Svasthani and the popular Svasthanivratakatha textual tradition. In the centuries following its origin as a simple local legend in the sixteenth century, the Svasthanivratakatha developed into a comprehensive Purana text that is still widely celebrated today among Nepal's Hindus with an annual month-long recitation. Jessica Birkenholtz uses the Svasthanivratakatha as a medium through which to view the ways in which political and cultural shifts among Nepal's ruling elite were taken up by the general public.

Drawing on both archival and ethnographic research, the book examines Svasthani and the Svasthanivratakatha within the shifting literary, linguistic, religious, cultural, and political contexts of medieval and modern Nepal from the sixteenth century to the present. It also explores both the complementary and contentious relationships between Nepal's heterogeneous Newar Hindu and high-caste hill Hindu communities, and those of Nepal as a Hindu kingdom vis-à-vis Hindu India. Reciting the Goddess brings the Svasthani devotional tradition to light as a new case study in the discussion of the making of Hindu religious identity and practice in Nepal and South Asia.

Jessica Birkenholtz is an Assistant Professor of Religion at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.

CHAPTER ONE Hinduisms and Histories in Nepal

CHAPTER TWO The Goddess of Place, Place of the Goddess

CHAPTER THREE An Unexpected Archive: The Svasthanivratakatha

CHAPTER FOUR The Making of Modern Hinduism in Medieval Nepal

CHAPTER FIVE A Women's Tradition

CHAPTER SIX Narratives of Place

APPENDICES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Erscheinungsdatum	15.03.2018
Zusatzinfo	18 illus.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	236 x 160 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-934116-8 / 0199341168
ISBN-13	978-0-19-934116-0 / 9780199341160
Zustand	Neuware