A Chryselephantine statuette of the Cretan snake-goddess in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Goddess traditions in South Asia have been a subject of significant academic interest since the advent of serious religious studies. This book examines a wide range of themes acros...

Abstract This book explores the religious life of an American Hindu goddess temple, the Parashakthi Temple, in Pontiac, Michigan. The goddess honored here, Karumaria...

Chapter 2 investigates the goddess Svasthānī herself. Svasthānī, “the Goddess of One’s Own Place,” serves as a relatively recent and tangible case study for understanding the birth...

This 1991 book presents a comprehensive study of the literature of the Cretan Renaissance and relates it to the historical, social and cultural context. Crete, ruled by Venice from...

Music in Boston: Composers, Events, and Ideas, 1852–1918 is a history of the city’s classical-music culture in the period that begins a decade before the American Civil War and ext...

Why did Bose send a statuette of Viṣṇu from distant Kerala to Freud for his 75th birthday rather than a Bengali goddess? The first half of chapter 7 looks at clues about the choice...

Considered one of the four legends in the Chinese oral tradition, the legend of the White Snake and its theatrical and popular cultural metamorphoses played an important role in th...

Covering 30,000 years of goddess worship, this fascinating book is the first and most comprehensive biographical dictionary devoted exclusively to mythological deities. S...