Is the Goddess a Feminist?: The Politics of South Asian Goddesses by Alf Hiltebeitel

Is the Goddess a Feminist?: The Politics of South Asian Goddesses

Alf Hiltebeitel

287 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction feminism gender religion challenging informative slow-paced
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In India, God can be female. The goddesses of Hinduism and Buddhism represent the largest extant collection of living goddesses anywhere on the planet. Feminists in the West often draw upon South Asian goddesses as theological resources in the con...

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