Reciting the Goddess
Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 April 2018
- ISBN 9780199341160
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 160x236x30 mm
- Weight 567 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 illus. 0
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Short description:
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.
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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.
a novel perspective...a brilliant and recommended read on non-Indian, local Hindu traditions and is a pioneer in Nepalese Hindu scholarship.
Table of Contents:
CHAPTER ONE Text, Ritual, Goddess: 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 Conclusion
APPENDICES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
