By Rachel Fell Mcdermott
ISBN-10: 0520232399
ISBN-13: 9780520232396
ISBN-10: 0520232402
ISBN-13: 9780520232402
ISBN-10: 1417522720
ISBN-13: 9781417522729
Encountering Kal? explores probably the most notable divinities the realm has seen--the Hindu goddess Kal?. She is concurrently understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of formality ownership, a Tantric sexual associate, and an all-loving, compassionate mom. well known and scholarly curiosity in her has been at the upward thrust within the West lately. Responding to this phenomenon, this quantity specializes in the complexities all for studying Kal? in either her indigenous South Asian settings and her more moderen Western incarnations. utilizing scriptural background, temple structure, political violence, feminist and psychoanalytic feedback, autobiographical mirrored image, and the goddess's contemporary guises on the web, the participants pose questions suitable to our figuring out of Kal?, as they light up the issues and supplies inherent in each act of cross-cultural interpretation.
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To McNeal, this is a potent reminder of “the flexible and innovative power of shakti cosmology as a situated symbolic system,” for this remarkable goddess unites in herself several seeming opposites—India and the West, power and oppression, Catholicism and Hinduism, and mysticism and psychiatry. ical or geographic 14 introducing ka¯ lı¯ studies mainstream labels “marginal” really is so peripheral to people’s lives. ical, male thinking. Hers is, in effect, a call to see and recognize the women standing at the historical, ritual, and psychological margins of the Ka¯lı¯ traditions, while affirming that in their own spheres, Ka¯lı¯ is absolutely pivotal.
10 In her association with S´iva, Ka¯lı¯’s tendency to wildness and disorder persists. Although she is sometimes tamed or softened by him, at times, she incites S´iva himself to dangerous, destructive behavior. A South Indian tradition tells of a dance contest between the two. After defeating S´umbha and Nis´umbha, Ka¯lı¯ takes up residence in a forest with her retinue of fierce companions and terrorizes the surrounding area. A devotee of S´iva in that area becomes distracted from doing austerities and petitions S´iva to rid the forest of the violent goddess.
But not entirely impossible. For all of these figures and all of their Ka¯lı¯s can be seen to represent together a kind of radical response to those many limit-situations of human experience in which the normal parameters of the world break down, frequently in the hope of something better or more adequate to the rich, often paradoxical textures of our lives (and deaths). Perhaps that is what we are after in the end—a new world to live and think and love in, a world big enough and honest enough to embrace the full scope and depth of human consciousness.
Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West by Rachel Fell Mcdermott
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