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Encountering Ka¯l¯ı Encountering Ka¯l¯ı In the Margins, at the Center, in the West EDITED BY Rachel Fell McDermott and Jeffrey J. Kripal UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England “Why the Ta¯ntrika Is a Hero” © 2003 by Jeffrey J. Kripal “Ka¯l¯ı’s New Frontiers” © 2003 by Rachel Fell McDermott “Introducing Ka¯l¯ıStudies,” “Ka¯l¯ıthe Terrific and Her Tests,” “The Domestication of a Goddess,” “Dominating Ka¯l¯ı,” “Ka¯l.i in a Con- textof Terror,” “Ka¯l¯ıMa¯y¯ı,” “Wrestling with Ka¯l¯ı,” “‘India’s Darkest Heart,’” “Doing the Mother’s Caribbean Work,” “Margins at the Cen- ter,” and “Documentary Film and Video Resources for Teaching on Ka¯l¯ıand Fierce Goddesses” © 2003 by the Regents of the University of California. Chapter 1 appears here by permission; it was originally published in David R. Kinsley,Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986). Copyright © 1986 The Regents of the Uni- versity of California. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data EncounteringKa¯l¯ı:inthemargins,atthecenter,intheWest/ edited by Rachel Fell McDermott and Jeffrey J. Kripal. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn0-520-23239-9 (cloth : alk. paper)—isbn0-520-23240-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Ka¯l¯ı(Hindu deity) I. McDermott, Rachel Fell. II. Kripal, Jeffrey John, 1962– bl1225.k3 e62 2003 294.5(cid:1)2114—dc21 2002073269 Manufactured in the United States of America 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The paper used in this publication is both acid-free and totally chlo- rine-free (TCF). It meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39.48–1992 (r1997) (Permanence of Paper). (cid:1)(cid:2) For David April25, 1939–April25, 2000 Is my black Mother S´ya¯ma¯ really black? People say Ka¯l¯ıis black, but my heart doesn’t agree. If She’s black, how can She light up the world? Sometimes my Mother is white, sometimes yellow, blue, and red. I cannot fathom Her. My whole life has passed trying. She is Matter, then Spirit, then complete Void. It’s easy to see how Kamala¯ka¯nta thinking these things went crazy. kamala¯ka¯nta bhat.t.a¯ca¯rya Among the most surprising findings [of psychoanalysis] is the way in which the dream-work treats contraries that occur in the latent dream ... an element in the manifest dream which is ca- pable of having a contrary may equally well be expressing either itself or its contrary or both together. ... In psychoanalysis oppo- sites imply no contradiction. sigmund freud, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis contents list of illustrations / xi acknowledgments / xiii about the chapter silhouettes / xv notes on transliteration / xvii Introducing Ka¯l¯ıStudies Jeffrey J. Kripal and Rachel Fell McDermott / 1 part i. ka¯l¯ı in the texts and contexts of south asia 1. Ka¯l¯ı David R. Kinsley / 23 2. Ka¯l¯ıthe Terrific and Her Tests: The S´a¯kta Devotionalism of the Mah¯abh¯agavata Pur¯an.a Patricia Dold / 39 3. The Domestication of a Goddess:Caran.a-t¯ırtha Ka¯l¯ıgha¯t., theMah¯ap¯ıt.ha of Ka¯l¯ı Sanjukta Gupta / 60 4. Dominating Ka¯l¯ı: Hindu Family Values and Tantric Power Usha Menon and Richard A. Shweder / 80
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