Ambivalent Goddesses in Patriarchies: A Comparative Study of Hekate in Ancient Greek and Roman Religion, and Kali in Contemporary Hinduism
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-0083
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-0083
- Author or attribution
- Jerusha Behari
- Record type
- Dissertation
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- 2011
- Source / repository
- University of KwaZulu-Natal
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- Kali Library Research Catalogue; Theses and Dissertations; Philosophy, Theology, and Comparative Religion; Contemporary Worship and Living Traditions
Description and curator notes
A master’s dissertation comparing Hekate in ancient Greek and Roman religion with Kali in contemporary Hinduism. The study examines powerful and ambivalent female divine figures within social and interpretive environments shaped by patriarchy. Its extended treatment brings textual representations, religious symbolism, and gender questions into conversation across the two cases. For a Kali library, it is most useful as a sustained comparative reading and a guide to earlier scholarship. Its degree level and comparative method should remain explicit: observations about the two goddesses are analytical comparisons, not claims of historical identity or direct transmission.
KALI-0083 — Kali Library Research Catalogue.
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Author / attribution: Jerusha Behari
Publication: University of KwaZulu-Natal · 2011
MA in Classics, Pietermaritzburg; 201 PDF pages
Format / language: Master’s dissertation · English
Kali relevance: Kali is one of the dissertation’s two principal subjects.
Context: Comparative religion; gender; Hekate and Kali.
Subjects: Theses and Dissertations; Philosophy, Theology, and Comparative Religion; Contemporary Worship and Living Traditions
Evidence / reliability: Institutional repository; degree level or research format stated explicitly
Access / rights: Complete text checked 2026-11-04. Freely readable from the stated institutional or original publication host. Copyright retained; no general republication licence established. Link to the work rather than copying it.
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Citation
Jerusha Behari. Ambivalent Goddesses in Patriarchies: A Comparative Study of Hekate in Ancient Greek and Roman Religion, and Kali in Contemporary Hinduism. University of KwaZulu-Natal · 2011.
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