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This chapter explores the nature of the goddess at the Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan, also known in English as the Eternal Mother Temple. The Divine Mother worshiped in this temple is named as the goddess Karumāriyammaṉ, “Black Māriyammaṉ.” The discourse and practices promulgated at the Parashakthi Temple help construct a form of religiosity that is rooted in Indian Hindu vernacular goddess traditions but transforms such traditions in dynamic conversation with the temple’s American and translocative context. In Michigan, the goddess and her temple are emplaced in the American landscape; yet they simultaneously participate in a transcultural, transnational, and transhistorical economy of divine power that reveals the nature of both goddess and temple as entities that ultimately transcend the types of religious and ethnic boundaries that characterize the mundane human world.
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