Goddess beyond boundaries : worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple /

"This book explores the religious life of an American Hindu goddess temple, the Parashakthi Temple, in Pontiac, Michigan. The goddess honored here, Karumariamman, originates from village goddess traditions in South India but comes to assume the status of Great Goddess in her Michigan abode. She...

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Main Author: Pintchman, Tracy (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
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505 0 |a Cover -- Copyright -- Goddess Beyond Boundaries -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliterations, Quotations, and Names -- Introduction -- Callings -- The Hindu Goddess in Scripture, in the World, and in Pontiac -- Why This Book? -- The Arrangement of Chapters -- 1. Geographic Crossings/​Earth -- Beginnings -- Mariamman and Karumariamman in India -- Karumariamman and Her Temple in Thiruverkadu -- Goddess on the Move: The Tamil Karumariamman Beyond Thiruverkadu -- Crossings: A Passage to Michigan -- Dwellings: The Parashakthi Temple as Translocal Sacred Space 
505 0 |a 2. Devotional Crossings/​Water -- Frictions and Flows -- Jane and Family -- Ven Johnson -- Laura -- A. N. K. Swamy and Dr. P. Pandian (a.k.a. Kaviyogi Bacon) -- Ravi -- Transcendent Lives and Translocal Shaktiscapes -- 3. Material Crossings/​Fire -- Matter that Matters -- Murtis (Temple Images) and Yantras -- The Goddess's Shaligrams -- The Rajagopuram and Shakti Garbha -- Material Theology at the Parashakthi Temple -- 4. Ritual Crossings/​Wind -- Performing Religion -- Rites at the Parashakthi Temple -- Pratinidhi Pilgrimage: The Ingathering of Shakti 
505 0 |a Rising from the Fire: Divine Mother Returns Home -- 5. Divine Crossings/​Space -- Frontiers and Maps -- The Impersonal Goddess: Goddess as Space, Vibration, Light, and Sound -- Goddess as Metaphor -- The Personal Goddess: Goddess as Healer, Caretaker, and Spiritual Guide -- Rohan -- Chandran -- Padmini -- Postscript: On the Parashakthi Temple as a "Diaspora" Temple -- Endings -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index 
520 |a "This book explores the religious life of an American Hindu goddess temple, the Parashakthi Temple, in Pontiac, Michigan. The goddess honored here, Karumariamman, originates from village goddess traditions in South India but comes to assume the status of Great Goddess in her Michigan abode. She is a tantric deity and wonder worker who communicates directly with devotees through dreams, visions, and miracles. The religiosity promoted by the Parashakthi Temple, while clearly Hindu and Indian in both form and substance, is nevertheless grounded in a vision of the Goddess as a breaker of all kinds of boundaries, including those of race, ethnicity, religion, geography, history, and nationality. Temple discourse is deeply innovative both ritually and theologically, reimagining and emplacing the Goddess in the American religious, cultural, and natural landscape and recreating Hindu traditions and the Hindu Great Goddess in dynamic conversation with the new context. Here the Goddess herself embodies 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"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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