McDermott, R.F.

Encountering Kali : in the margins, at the center, in the west/ R.F. McDermott - Delhi : M.B.P., 2005. - xviii,321p. ; 24cm.

PART I. KALI IN THE TEXTS AND CONTEXTS OF SOUTH ASIA
1. Kali
David R. Kinsley
2. Kali the Terrific and Her Tests: The Sakta Devotionalism of the
Mahdbhdgavala Purdnn
Patricia Dold
3. The Domestication of a Goddess: Carana-tiriha Kalighat, the Mahdpitha
of Kali
â– Sanjukta Gupta
4. Dominating Kali: Hindu Family Values and Tanu ic Power
Usha Menon and Richard A. Sluoedcr
5- Kaji in a Context of Terror: The Tasks of a Goddess in Sri Lanka's
Civil War
Palririd Lmitrence
6. Kali Mayi: Myth and Reality in a Banaras Ghetto
Roxnnne Kamayani Gupta
PART II. KALI IN WKSTERN SETTINGS, WESTERN DISCOURSES
7. Wrestling with Kali: South Asian and British Constructions of the
Dark Goddess
Cynthia Ann Humes
' 8. "India's Darkest Heart": Kali in the Colonial Imagination
Hugh B. Ihban
9. Wliy the Tantrika Is a Hero: Kali in the Psychoanalytic Tradition
Jeffrey J. Kripal
10. Doing the Mother's Caribbean Work: On Shakli and Society in
Contemporary Trinidad
Keith E. McNeal
11. Margins at the Center: Tracing Kali through Time, Space, and
Culture
Sarah Caldwell
12. Kali's New Frontiers: A Hindu Goddess on the Internet
Rachel Fell McDennali

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