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constant and changing faces of the goddess
Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference 2005 : Claremont Graduate University)
Issues in studying Mago, the great goddess of East Asia: primary sources, gynocentric history, and nationalism / Helen Hye-Sook Hwang -- Dākinīs and Yoginīs: on the origin and development of an early medieval Indian Buddhist goddess tradition / David Gray -- Sita Masala: from the Vedas to the kitchen / Phyllis K. Herman -- Kannon: the goddess of compassion in Japan / Kenneth D. Lee -- From Kuan Yin to Joan of Arc: female divinities in the Caodai pantheon / Janet Hoskins -- Between Bodhisattva and Christian deity: Guanyin and the Virgin Mary in late Ming China / Gang Song -- Meeting the goddess: religion, morality, and medicine in a fishing community in Hong Kong forty years ago / E.N. Anderson -- She dances madly: towards a ritual political economy of the goddess / Piya Chatterjee -- The politicization of an icon: Durga/Kali/Bharat Mata and her transformations / Mary-Ann Milford-Lutzker -- Come one, come all, to the fair of the mother's transformations: some glimpses of Kali and her temples in West Bengal / June McDaniel -- Lakshmi and Alakshmi: the Kojagari Lakshmi Vrata Katha of Bengal / Bidyut Mohanty -- The goddess and ecological sensitivity: the cultivation of earth knowledge / Christopher Key Chapple -- Goma: an embodiment of the goddess / Deepak Shimkhada -- Sarasvati: goddess of no husband, no child / Małgorzata (Margaret) Kruszewska -- The modern legend of Miaoshan: the development of the Sangha of vegetarian nuns in China / Chia-Lan Chang -- The body of the goddess, eco-awareness and embodiment in Hindu myth and romance / Sthaneshwar Timalsina.
edited by Deepak Shimkhada and Phyllis K. Herman.
Based on presentations at the 39th Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference ; hosted by Claremont Graduate University.