The constant and changing faces of the goddess : goddess traditions of Asia /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Claremont Graduate University, Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference
Other Authors:	Shimkhada, Deepak, Herman, Phyllis K.
Format:	Conference Proceeding Book
Language:	English
Published:	Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
Subjects:	Goddesses > Asia > Congresses. Asia > Religious life and customs > Congresses.

Table of Contents:

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.