The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess

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The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess is written by Ehud Halperin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190913584 (ISBN 10) and 9780190913588 (ISBN 13).

"This book offers a portrait of Haḍimbā, a primary village goddess in the Kullu Valley of the West Indian Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, a rural area known as the Land of God. Drawing on diverse ethnographic and textual materials The Many Faces of a Himalayan Goddess is rich with myths and tales, accounts of dramatic rituals and festivals, and descriptions of everyday life in the celebrated but remote Kullu Valley. The book portrays the goddess in varying contexts that radiate outward from her temple to local, regional, national, and indeed global spheres. The result is an important contribution to the study of Indian village goddesses, lived Hinduism, Himalayan Hinduism, and the rapidly growing field of religion and ecology"--