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028			_aRaghav Books _bA-184, A, Nand Gram, Ghaziabad _c1000 _d04/09/2025
082			_a294.50 CAR
100			_a Carrin, Marine.
245			_aChildren of the Goddess _b: Devotion and Female Priesthood in Bengal. _c/ Marine Carrin.
260			_a, Chennai _b: Primus Books _c, 2018.
300			_avii, 296p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b836
520			_aThe women featured in Children of the Goddess: Devotion and Female Priesthood in Bengal live on the frontier between the tribal and the low-caste society in Bengal, and turn to religion in order to forge a new identity. Often rejected by their own community, and having lived through long and difficult personal crises some of them turn to religion to accultured identity. Some may succeed in becoming female priests, presiding over a Goddess shrine, having given up their femininity by ceasing to menstruate. As Parvati, the central personality of the book, puts it: ‘Now I no longer need a child. I am the child of the Goddess’, even as she innovates on the boundaries of Hinduism. The book provides a window to a little-known world where social marginality, subaltern assertion, the politics of gender, and the contestation between tribal religion and Hinduism merge to produce a unique perspective on popular Hinduism.
650			_aHinduism
650			_aChildren of the Goddess
650			_aDevotion and Female Priesthood
700			_aMarine Carrin
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