Tracy Pintchman
Biographic Data
| ID | 575550 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracy Pintchman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracy |
| FAMILY NAME | Pintchman |
| SIGNATURE | PINTCHMAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-5739-3952 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Sita for the New Millennium; Sita as Warrior, Prime Minister, and “The Vishnu” in Amish Tripathi’s Ram Chandra Series
Goddess Beyond Boundaries: Worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple
This book explores the religious life of an American Hindu goddess temple, the Parashakthi Temple, in Pontiac, Michigan. The goddess honored here, Karumariamman, originates from village goddess traditions in South India but comes to assume the status of Great Goddess in her Michigan abode. She is a tantric deity and wonder worker who communicates directly with devotees through dreams, visions, and miracles. The religiosity promoted by the Parasha…
Rethinking Diaspora in the American Hindu Landscape: The Translocal Śaktiscape of the Hindu Goddess in Pontiac, Michigan
The omnipresence of the diaspora frame in naming forms of Hinduism that arise and perdure outside of India often functions to erase the uniqueness and creativity that mark many Hindu and Hindu-influenced spaces, communities, and practices worldwide. This article aims to interrogate and unsettle the ubiquitous deployment of the term diaspora, drawing on the author’s experience with one particular Hindu community. The article suggests a need for mo…
Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess: Contemporary Iterations of Hindu Deities on the Move
Inventing and reinventing the goddess: Contemporary iterations of Hindu deities on the move
Chapter 1: Goddesses That Dwell On Earth: A Folk Paradigm of Divine Female Multiplicity Brenda Beck Chapter 2: Constructing Goddess Worship: Colonial Ethnographic and Public Health Discourses in South India Perundevi Srinivasan Chapter 3: From Local Goddess to Locale Goddess: Karumariamman as Divine Mother at a North American Hindu Temple Tracy Pintchman Chapter 4: An Indentured Goddess: Displacement of a Village Deity from Colonial India to Ceyl…
Woman and Goddess in Hinduism
Offering multilayered explorations of Hindu understandings of the Feminine, both human and divine, this book emphasizes theological and activist methods and aims over historical, anthropological, and
Woman and Goddess in Hinduism: Reinterpretations and Re-Envisionings
Reflections on Power and the Post-Colonial Context: Tales from the Field
The history of ethnographic practice in anthropology is inseparable from histories of colonialism—including racist assumptions and exploitative interests. This essay comments on concerns about power and ethnographic work from a different point of view, considering the relative powerlessness of the ethnographer in the context of a relationship that developed in the field. The essay argues that power relations in the practice of ethnography are in …
Krishna: A Sourcebook. Edited by Edwin F. Bryant
Journal Article Krishna: A Sourcebook. Edited by Edwin F. Bryant Get access Krishna: A Sourcebook. Edited by Edwin F. Bryant. Oxford University Press, 2007. 575 pages. $35.00. Tracy Pintchman Tracy Pintchman Loyola University Chicago [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 76, Issue 2, June 2008, Pages 509–512, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfn02…
Lovesick Gopi or Woman's Best Friend?: The Mythic Sakhi and Ritual Friendships among Women in Benares
This chapter explores a tradition undertaken by women living in Benares, Uttar Pradesh (North India), in which the gopis — the famous cowherdesses of Krishna mythology — becomes the model for ritually-based female friendships. The gopis are also referred to as the sakhis or “female friends”, and in ordinary speech, the term sakhi is used to refer commonly to a girl's or woman's female friend. The tradition involves a ritual process of “becoming” …
Women's Lives, Women's Rituals in the Hindu Tradition
New Voices, New Challenges, and New Opportunities in the Study of Hindu Traditions
In recent decades, a great deal of attention has been devoted to critiquing nineteenth and early twentieth century Indological work and its Orientalist assumptions, distortions, and biases. These processes of self-reflection have produced crucial methodological and theoretical revision and have propelled us into an academic era of ‘posts’, including post-colonial and post-Orientalist alongside post-modern. This essay contemplates what has risen f…
Courting Krishna on the Banks of the Ganges: Gender and Power in a Hindu Women's Ritual Tradition
Research Article| May 01 2004 Courting Krishna on the Banks of the Ganges: Gender and Power in a Hindu Women's Ritual Tradition Tracy Pintchman Tracy Pintchman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 25–36. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-24-1-25 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Tracy Pintchman; Courting Krishna…
Seeking Mahadevi: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess
Seeking Mahādevī: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess
Ninian, At Home in the World
Gender Complementarity and Gender Hierarchy in Puraanic Accounts of Creation
Journal Article Gender Complementarity and Gender Hierarchy in Purāanic Accounts of Creation Get access Tracy Pintchman Tracy Pintchman Tracy Pintchman is Assistant Professor of Hindu Studies at Loyola University, Chicago,IL 60626-5385. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 2, SUMMER 1998, Pages 257–282, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/66.2.257 Publish…
The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition
The Ambiguous Female: Conceptions of Female Gender in the Brahmanical Tradition and the Roles of Women in India
Speculative patterns in Hopi cosmology
Pour parvenir a une formulation de la cosmologie des indiens Hopi d'Amerique du Nord, il faut aller voir du cote de leur culture, en incluant la pensee mythique, l'agriculture et la perception du temps. La cosmologie traditionnelle des Hopi met en place trois niveaux cosmiques distincts en continuelle interaction qui est la base de la qualite dynamique de l'univers. Le cosmos n'est pas une entite statique mais un devenir
Courting Krishna on the Banks of the Ganges: Gender and Power in a Hindu Women's Ritual Tradition
Research Article| May 01 2004 Courting Krishna on the Banks of the Ganges: Gender and Power in a Hindu Women's Ritual Tradition Tracy Pintchman Tracy Pintchman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 25–36. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-24-1-25 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Tracy Pintchman; Courting Krishna…
Goddess Beyond Boundaries: Worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple
This book explores the religious life of an American Hindu goddess temple, the Parashakthi Temple, in Pontiac, Michigan. The goddess honored here, Karumariamman, originates from village goddess traditions in South India but comes to assume the status of Great Goddess in her Michigan abode. She is a tantric deity and wonder worker who communicates directly with devotees through dreams, visions, and miracles. The religiosity promoted by the Parasha…
The Ambiguous Female: Conceptions of Female Gender in the Brahmanical Tradition and the Roles of Women in India
Speculative patterns in Hopi cosmology
Pour parvenir a une formulation de la cosmologie des indiens Hopi d'Amerique du Nord, il faut aller voir du cote de leur culture, en incluant la pensee mythique, l'agriculture et la perception du temps. La cosmologie traditionnelle des Hopi met en place trois niveaux cosmiques distincts en continuelle interaction qui est la base de la qualite dynamique de l'univers. Le cosmos n'est pas une entite statique mais un devenir
The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition
Gender Complementarity and Gender Hierarchy in Puraanic Accounts of Creation
Journal Article Gender Complementarity and Gender Hierarchy in Purāanic Accounts of Creation Get access Tracy Pintchman Tracy Pintchman Tracy Pintchman is Assistant Professor of Hindu Studies at Loyola University, Chicago,IL 60626-5385. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 2, SUMMER 1998, Pages 257–282, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/66.2.257 Publish…
Seeking Mahādevī: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess
Ninian, At Home in the World
Courting Krishna on the Banks of the Ganges: Gender and Power in a Hindu Women's Ritual Tradition
Research Article| May 01 2004 Courting Krishna on the Banks of the Ganges: Gender and Power in a Hindu Women's Ritual Tradition Tracy Pintchman Tracy Pintchman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (1): 25–36. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-24-1-25 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Tracy Pintchman; Courting Krishna…
Seeking Mahadevi: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess
Lovesick Gopi or Woman's Best Friend?: The Mythic Sakhi and Ritual Friendships among Women in Benares
This chapter explores a tradition undertaken by women living in Benares, Uttar Pradesh (North India), in which the gopis — the famous cowherdesses of Krishna mythology — becomes the model for ritually-based female friendships. The gopis are also referred to as the sakhis or “female friends”, and in ordinary speech, the term sakhi is used to refer commonly to a girl's or woman's female friend. The tradition involves a ritual process of “becoming” …
Women's Lives, Women's Rituals in the Hindu Tradition
New Voices, New Challenges, and New Opportunities in the Study of Hindu Traditions
In recent decades, a great deal of attention has been devoted to critiquing nineteenth and early twentieth century Indological work and its Orientalist assumptions, distortions, and biases. These processes of self-reflection have produced crucial methodological and theoretical revision and have propelled us into an academic era of ‘posts’, including post-colonial and post-Orientalist alongside post-modern. This essay contemplates what has risen f…
Krishna: A Sourcebook. Edited by Edwin F. Bryant
Journal Article Krishna: A Sourcebook. Edited by Edwin F. Bryant Get access Krishna: A Sourcebook. Edited by Edwin F. Bryant. Oxford University Press, 2007. 575 pages. $35.00. Tracy Pintchman Tracy Pintchman Loyola University Chicago [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 76, Issue 2, June 2008, Pages 509–512, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfn02…
Reflections on Power and the Post-Colonial Context: Tales from the Field
The history of ethnographic practice in anthropology is inseparable from histories of colonialism—including racist assumptions and exploitative interests. This essay comments on concerns about power and ethnographic work from a different point of view, considering the relative powerlessness of the ethnographer in the context of a relationship that developed in the field. The essay argues that power relations in the practice of ethnography are in …
Woman and Goddess in Hinduism
Offering multilayered explorations of Hindu understandings of the Feminine, both human and divine, this book emphasizes theological and activist methods and aims over historical, anthropological, and
Woman and Goddess in Hinduism: Reinterpretations and Re-Envisionings
Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess: Contemporary Iterations of Hindu Deities on the Move
Inventing and reinventing the goddess: Contemporary iterations of Hindu deities on the move
Chapter 1: Goddesses That Dwell On Earth: A Folk Paradigm of Divine Female Multiplicity Brenda Beck Chapter 2: Constructing Goddess Worship: Colonial Ethnographic and Public Health Discourses in South India Perundevi Srinivasan Chapter 3: From Local Goddess to Locale Goddess: Karumariamman as Divine Mother at a North American Hindu Temple Tracy Pintchman Chapter 4: An Indentured Goddess: Displacement of a Village Deity from Colonial India to Ceyl…
Rethinking Diaspora in the American Hindu Landscape: The Translocal Śaktiscape of the Hindu Goddess in Pontiac, Michigan
The omnipresence of the diaspora frame in naming forms of Hinduism that arise and perdure outside of India often functions to erase the uniqueness and creativity that mark many Hindu and Hindu-influenced spaces, communities, and practices worldwide. This article aims to interrogate and unsettle the ubiquitous deployment of the term diaspora, drawing on the author’s experience with one particular Hindu community. The article suggests a need for mo…
Goddess Beyond Boundaries: Worshipping the Eternal Mother at a North American Hindu Temple
This book explores the religious life of an American Hindu goddess temple, the Parashakthi Temple, in Pontiac, Michigan. The goddess honored here, Karumariamman, originates from village goddess traditions in South India but comes to assume the status of Great Goddess in her Michigan abode. She is a tantric deity and wonder worker who communicates directly with devotees through dreams, visions, and miracles. The religiosity promoted by the Parasha…
A Sita for the New Millennium; Sita as Warrior, Prime Minister, and “The Vishnu” in Amish Tripathi’s Ram Chandra Series
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