Singing the Goddess Into Place - Locality, Myth, Social Change in Chamundi of Hill, a Kannada Folk

Explores how a folk ballad in southern India transforms the landscape and embeds the deities that are its subject within the social worlds of their devotees.

About the author

Caleb Simmons is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Faculty Director of the Bachelor of General Studies Program in the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India and coeditor (with Moumita Sen and Hillary Rodrigues) of Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navarātri Festival in South Asia, also published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: Caleb Simmons, Simmons Caleb
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2023
• EAN: 9781438488660
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-8866-0
• No. of pages: 263
• Series: SUNY Series in Hindu Studies; Suny Hindu Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, RELIGION / Hinduism / History, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, RELIGION / Hinduism / Rituals & Practice, History of Religion, Hinduism, Social and cultural anthropology, Asian History, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Tribal religions, Hindu Life & Practice, Hindu life and practice, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs, RELIGION / Folk & Tribal