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RLST 118 CM - Hindu Goddess Worship


This 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.  HRT I, CWS.

Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
Course Credit: 1.0


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