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Apr 19, 2024
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2019-2020 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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RLST118 CM - Hindu Goddess WorshipThis upper division course is a historical and comparative treatment of devotion to Hindu goddesses from prehistory to the modern era. Topics will include: concepts of gender in the divine, continuations and divergences between textual and popular goddess worship, Shaktism, Tantra, spirit possession, female saints and renunciants, and the relation of human men and women to Hindu goddesses.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: RLST118 CM
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