Burley, M orcid.org/0000-0002-7446-3564 (2022) The nature and significance of the Hindu Divine Mother in embodied thealogical perspective. Religious Studies, 58 (S1). S4-S16. ISSN 0034-4125
Abstract
The Hindu Divine Mother is revered by millions of religious practitioners in India and elsewhere, yet this goddess rarely receives attention in Western philosophy of religion. Focusing especially (though not exclusively) on her form as Kālī, this article utilizes sources from Hindu goddess traditions to explicate her contrasting characteristics, which include benign maternality and martial aggression. By adapting an embodied theological (or thealogical) approach derived from feminist discourse, the intelligibility of worshipping such a goddess is expounded; connections are delineated between the conceptualizing of divinity as radically ambivalent or multivalent and the lived experience of inhabiting an often hostile world.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > Theology and Religious Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 08 Jun 2021 09:30 |
Last Modified: | 03 Apr 2023 03:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0034412521000263 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:174991 |