Religion, Devotion and Medicine in North India: The Healing Power of Śītalā, written by Fabrizio M. Ferrari

Sil, Narasingha P.

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“…What, however, are we to make of descriptions of people who ‘quite literally’ regard a disease as the presence of, or at least as having been initiated by, a goddess – that is, as a manifestation of ‘the Mother's Grace ( Māyer dayā )’ (Sil (2016), 283; see also Nicholas (2003), 107)? Among other things, the descriptions constitute an acknowledgement that worshippers of the goddess, whether she be depicted as Kālī or as Śītalā or in some other form, see in the affliction something both horrifying and awesome.…”

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The nature and significance of the Hindu Divine Mother in embodied thealogical perspective

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2021

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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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The nature and significance of the Hindu Divine Mother in embodied thealogical perspective

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2021

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Religion, Devotion and Medicine in North India: The Healing Power of Śītalā, written by Fabrizio M. Ferrari

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The nature and significance of the Hindu Divine Mother in embodied thealogical perspective

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