Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Inventing/Reinventing the Goddess in Local Indian Tradition, Conf on South Asia, Madison, Oct. 2011

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Inventing/Reinventing the Goddess in Local Indian
Tradition, Conf on South Asia, Madison, Oct. 2011

> H-ASIA
> March 17, 2011
>
> Call for papers/panel participants: Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess
> in Local Indian Tradition, Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison,
> October, 2011
>
> *****************************************************************
> From: Michael J. Kruse <conference@southasia.wisc.edu>
>
> Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess in Local Indian Tradition
>
> Popular religion in India is overwhelmingly dominated by goddess worship.
> Goddesses can be well-known like Durga or Kali or be an obscure deity that
> is only known in a particular locale. The origins of the goddess can go
> back
> to very ancient times with many transitions or amalgamations with other
> cults along the way. Or, a goddess can be of a very recent origin. A
> goddess
> might originate from tribal origins or just sprout up overnight because of
> somebody's dream. The papers in this panel might look at the nature of how
> and why goddesses are invented and reinvented historically in India and
> how
> social hierarchy, gender differences, and modernity play roles in these
> emerging religious phenomena. Please reply to
> Sree Padma (spadma@bowdoin.edu).
>
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