2016
DOI: 10.1163/15734218-12341367
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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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“…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.…”
Section: ‘Wonder At What Is Terrible’: Religious Responses In a Turbu...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…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.…”
Section: ‘Wonder At What Is Terrible’: Religious Responses In a Turbu...mentioning
confidence: 99%