TY - BOOK TI - The constant and changing faces of the goddess: Goddess traditions of Asia SN - 9781847183903 U1 - 202.114 PY - 2008/// CY - Newcastle PB - Cambridge Scholars Publication N1 - Issues in Studying Mago, the Great Goddess of East Asia: Primary Sources, Gynocentric History, and Nationalism Helen Hye-Sook Hwang The Malleable Goddess: Historical Transformations of the Goddess DakinTs and YoginTs: On the Origin and Development of an Early Medieval Indian Buddhist Goddess Tradition David Gray Sita Masala: From the Vedas to the Kitchen Phyllis K. Herman Kannon: The Goddess of Compassion in Japan Kenneth D. Lee From Kuan Yin to Joan of Arc: Female Divinities in the Caodai Pantheon Janet Hoskins Between Bodhisattva and Christian Deity: Guanyin and the Virgin Mary in Late Ming China Gang Song Meeting the Goddess: Economics and Politics of the Goddess Meeting the Goddess: Religion, Morality, and Medicine in a Fishing Community in Hong Kong Forty Years Ago E. N. Anderson She Dances Madly: Towards a Ritual Political Economy of the Goddess Piya Chatterjee The Politicization of an Icon: Durga/Kali/Bharat Mata and her Transformations Mary-Ann Milford-Lutzker Come All, to the Fair of the Mother's Transformations! Some Glimpses of Kali and Her Temples in West Bengal June McDaniel Status of Women in an Agrarian Economy: Deconconstruction of Oriya Laksmi Vrat-Katha Bidyut Mohanty One and Many: Multiplicity and Manifestations of the Goddess The Goddess and Ecological Sensitivity: The Cultivation of Earth Knowledge Christopher Key Chappie Goma: An Embodiment of the Goddess Deepak Shimkhada Sarasvati: Goddess of No Husband, No Child Malgorzata (Margaret) Kruszewska Myth Making and Serving the Goddess Today The Modem Legend of Miaoshan: The Development of the Sangha of Vegetarian Nuns in China Chia-Lan Chang The Body of the Goddess, Eco-Awareness and Embodiment in Hindu Myth and Romance Sthaneshwar Timalsina ER -