Goddess Beyond Boundaries
Worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 November 2024
- ISBN 9780190673017
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 210x140 mm
- Weight 830 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 b/w photographs 643
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Short description:
Tracy Pintchman sheds light on the spiritual creativity and religious life of the Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan. Drawing on fifteen years of field research, Pintchman reveals how Karumariamman, the goddess honored by the temple, embodies the border-and-boundary-crossing dynamics of the lives of many of the congregants who worship at her temple, which in turn has become a site of religious innovation.
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The Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan serves as a site of worship for the Hindu goddess Karumariamman, whose origins are in South India. In her American home Karumariamman has assumed the status of Great Goddess, a tantric deity and wonder worker who communicates directly with devotees through dreams, visions, and miracles. Drawing on fifteen years of field work, Tracy Pintchman reveals how the Parashakthi Temple has become a site of theological and ritual innovation.
A unique spiritual community, the temple does not simply reproduce Indian goddess traditions, but instead reimagines Hinduism and the Hindu Goddess in the American religious, cultural, and natural landscape. The congregation's faith is grounded in a vision of the Goddess as a breaker of boundaries, including those of race, ethnicity, religion, geography, history, and nationality. Like her congregants, Pintchman suggests, the goddess is emblematic of the qualities of a new immigrant; she embraces the opportunities her new home affords her and refashions herself, but she does not forget her roots, keeping one foot planted in her Indian homeland and another planted firmly in her new land, the United States.
Pintchman considers larger issues concerning the creativity of immigrant Hindu communities and the ways in which diaspora contexts facilitate the production of new forms of Hinduism that are made possible by globalization and modern technology.
I have long been waiting for this book. Pintchman presents us with a fascinating case study of a translocal goddess who has rooted herself in Michigan, in the process transforming the area into a node of the Goddess's shaktiscape and an enlivened seat of the feminine divine. From beginning to end, Pintchman and the Goddess enthrall.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration and Names
Figures
Introduction
Geographic Crossings/Earth
Chapter Two: Devotional Crossings/Water
Chapter Three: Material Crossings/Fire
Chapter Four: Ritual Crossings/Wind
Chapter Five: Divine Crossings/Space
Postscript: On the Parashakthi Temple as a "Diaspora" Temple
Works Cited
Index
