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The importance in Hinduism of goddesses and the Great Goddess (Devi) is one feature that distinguishes it from the religions of the West. The Divine Feminine plays an important part in many aspects of Hindu myth, worship, and theology. Goddess traditions of Hinduism have come under increasing study with the rise of feminism and the search for materials in religious traditions to support wider roles for women.
See also the page on Women in Hinduism.
Books and Articles
Coburn, Thomas. "Experiencing the Goddess: Notes on a Text, Gender, and Society." Manushi 80 (Jan-Feb 1994), 2-10.
Dehejia, Vidya. 1999. Devi, the Great Goddess: Female Divinity in South Asian Art. Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
Erndl, Kathleen. 1993. Victory to the Mother: The Hindu Goddess of Northwest India in Myth, Ritual, and Symbol. New York: Oxford University Press.
Gross, Rita M. 1983. "Hindu Female Deities as a Resource for the Contemporary Rediscovery of the Goddess." In The Book of the Goddess: Past and Present, ed. Carl Olson, New York: Crossroads.
Harding, Elizabeth. 1993. Kali: The Black Goddess of Dakshineshwar. York Beach, Me.: Samuel Weiser.
Hawley, John Stratton, and Donna Marie Wulff, eds. 1982. The Divine Consort: Radha and the Goddesses of India. Berkeley, Calif.: Berkeley Religious Studies Series.
Hawley, John S. and Donna M. Wulff, eds. 1996. Devi: Goddesses of India. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Hiltebeitel, Alf, and Kathleen Erndl, eds. 2000. Is the Goddess a Feminist? The Politics of South Asian Goddesses. New York: New York University Press.
Kinsley, David. 1986. Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press
Kinsley, David. 1997. Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine. Berkeley: U. of California Press.
McDermott, Rachel Fell. 2000. Signing to the Goddess: Poems to Kali and Uma from Bengal. Oxford University Press.
McLean, Malcom. 1998. Devoted to the Goddess: The Life and Work of Ramprasad. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Nathan, Leonard, and Clinton Seely, trans. 1982. Grace and Mercy in her Wild Hair: Selected Poems to the Mother Goddess [by Ramprasad Sen]. Boulder : Great Eastern.
Pintchman, Tracy, ed. 2001. Seeking Mahadevi: Constructing Identities of the Great Goddess. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Preston, James J. Cult of the Goddess: Social and Religious Change in a Hindu Temple. Waveland Press.
Pande, Mrinal. 1996. Devi: Tales of the Goddess in Our Time. Colombia, MO: South Asia Books. [A book that unites goddess mythology with stories of the author's female relatives and other women.]
See Svoboda's Aghora, in the section on Tantra.
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