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020			_a9780195092837 (pbk.)
082	0	0	_a294.5212 _bFEL
100	1		_aFeldhaus, Anne. _91400
245	1	0	_aWater and womanhood : _breligious meanings of rivers in Maharashtra
260			_aNew York _bOxford University Press _c1995
300			_a250 p. : _bill., map ;
520			_aRivers in India are commonly associated with certain worldly religious values: wealth, beauty, long life, good health, food, love, and the birth of children. However, these "domestic" values have been relatively neglected by Indologists, who have tended to view India and Hinduism through the prism of poverty, misery, asceticism, and themes of purity or pollution. Following recent scholarship by arguing that the earthly pursuits are equally vital to an understanding of popular Hinduism, Feldhaus examines the role of these ideals in the religious meanings of rivers in Maharashtra, a large region of western India. Drawing both on written religious texts and on a wide range of oral, iconographic, and ritual materials gathered in the course of field work in India, she shows that these values, which are usually associated with women or represented by goddesses, are an important motif in popular religious practices and oral traditions associated with the rivers of Maharashtra, and she presents the many different ways in which rivers are imagined, enshrined, worshipped, and feared.
650		0	_aRivers _92537
650		0	_aWomen in Hinduism. _92136
650		0	_aGoddesses, Indic _92538
650		0	_aRivers _92537
650		0	_aRivers _92537
650		0	_xReligious aspects _xHinduism. _92135
650		0	_zIndia _zMaharashtra. _92137
650		0	_xMythology _zIndia _zMaharashtra. _92138
650		0	_zIndia _zMaharashtra _xFolklore. _92139
651		0	_aMaharashtra (India) _xReligious life and customs. _92140
856	4	2	_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0604/94036158-d.html
856	4	1	_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0604/94036158-t.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description
856	4	1	_3Table of contents only
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