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Reciting The Goddess Narratives Of Place And The Making Of Hinduism In Nepal Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz

SKU: BELL-38063422

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Reciting The Goddess Narratives Of Place And The Making Of Hinduism In Nepal Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz instant download after payment.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 4.65 MB

Pages: 344

Author: Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz

ISBN: 9780199341160, 0199341168

Language: English

Year: 2018

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Reciting The Goddess Narratives Of Place And The Making Of Hinduism In Nepal Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz by Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz 9780199341160, 0199341168 instant download after payment.

Reciting the Goddess presents the first critical study of the Svasthanivratakatha (SVK), a sixteenth-century Hindu narrative textual tradition. The extensive SVK manuscript tradition offers a rare opportunity to observe the making of a specific, distinct Hindu religious tradition. Jessica
Vantine Birkenholtz argues that the SVK serves as a lens through which we can observe the creation of modern 'Hinduism' in the Himalayas, as the text both mirrored and informed key moments in the self-conscious creation of Nepal as the 'world's only Hindu kingdom' in the late medieval and early
modern period.
Birkenholtz mines the literary historiography that is contained within the SVK text itself, chronicling the text's literary and narrative development as well as the development of the Svasthani goddess tradition. She outlines the process whereby the SVK gradually transformed into a Purana text, and
became a critical source for Nepali Hindu belief and identity. She also examines the elusive character of the goddess Svasthani whose identity is tied to the pan-Hindu goddess tradition, and the representation of women in the SVK and the ways in which the text influenced local and regional debates
on the ideal of Hindu womanhood. Reciting the Goddess presents Nepal's celebrated SVK as a micro-level illustration of the powerful ways in which people, place, and literature intersect to produce new ideas and concepts of identity and place, even in a historically non-literate culture.