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2024-2025 Pitzer Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Pitzer Catalog
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RLST 118 CM -Hindu Goddess Worship


Institution: Claremont McKenna

Description: This upper division course is a historical and comparative treatment of devotion to Hindu goddesses from prehistory to the modern era. Topics will include: concepts of gender in the divine; continuations and divergences between textual and popular goddess worship; Shaktism; Tantra; spirit possession; female saints and renunciants; and the relation of human men and women to Hindu goddesses. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

Prerequisite(s): Please check course schedule for requirements.

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