ASIAN STUDIES 289 - Construction of the Goddess and Deification of Women in Hindu Religious Tradition

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Bowdoin College

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Fall 2007. SREE PADMA. Focuses include: 1) an examination of the manner in which the power of the feminine has been expressed mythologically and theologically in Hinduism; 2) how various categories of goddesses can be seen or not as the forms of the "great goddess"; and 3) how Hindu womenhave been deified, a process that implicates the relationship between the goddess and women. Students read a range of works, primary sources such as Devi Mahatmya, biographies and myths of deified women, and recent scholarship on goddesses and deified women. (Same as Religion 289.) One-half credit course.

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3.00

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www.bowdoin.edu/

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(207) 725-3000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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