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Śākta (Goddess) worship in the Hindu Diaspora
Hindu Diasporas (2023)
  • Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University Chicago
Abstract
This chapter explores Hindu goddess traditions that migrating Hindus perpetuate outside of India. The chapter is divided into three sections. The first section of the chapter explores Hindu goddess temples in diaspora; the second section explores diaspora Hindus’ public and domestic rituals honouring the Goddess; and the last section explores diaspora Hindus’ experiences of goddess possession and female gurus whom devotees consider to be living forms of the Goddess. The chapter examines the many ways that Hindu goddess devotees both reproduce and revise Indian Hindu goddess traditions as they move around the globe and adapt their traditions of goddess reverence to their new homelands.
Keywords
  • Goddess,
  • Śākta,
  • Śāktism,
  • temples,
  • possession,
  • ritual,
  • Hindu festivals,
  • Kālī
Publication Date
September, 2023
Editor
Knut A. Jacobsen
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN
9780198867692
DOI
10.1093/oso/9780198867692.003.0013
Citation Information
Tracy Pintchman. "Śākta (Goddess) worship in the Hindu Diaspora" Hindu Diasporas (2023) p. 286 - 303
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tracy-pintchman/52/