Dear Nataliya,

On the Minakshi temple, I recommend for undergrads:

Christopher John Fuller, Servants Of The Goddess: The Priests of a South Indian Temple. Cambridge studies in social anthropology 47. Oxford University Press, 1984.
https://books.google.com/books?id=KaKCQgAACAAJ 

Christopher John Fuller, The Renewal of the Priesthood: Modernity and Traditionalism in a South Indian Temple (Princeton University Press, 2003).
https://books.google.com/books?id=GEFuDcK7i44C 

William P. Harman, The Sacred Marriage of a Hindu Goddess (Indiana University Press, 1989; rep. Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1992).
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Sacred_Marriage_of_a_Hindu_Goddess.html?id=F_siW9T3ev4C 

Best wishes for the holidays,

Timothy Lubin
Professor of Religion and Adjunct Professor of Law
Chair of the Department of Religion
Chair of the Middle East and South Asia Studies Program
204 Tucker Hall
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, Virginia 24450

http://home.wlu.edu/~lubint 
http://wlu.academia.edu/TimothyLubin 





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Reply-To: Nataliya Yanchevskaya <markandeia@gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, December 24, 2017 at 4:46 AM
To: INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Literature on Minakshi and Gauri puja

Dear Colleagues,

My students are writing term papers for the South Asian mythology course. One of them is writing on  MInAkSI and the Minakshi temple in Madurai; another one is writing on the Gauri puja as performed in Maharashtra. 
Could you please kindly recommend scholarly sources (books or articles) on these two subjects suitable for the undergraduate students?

Many thanks and happy holidays,
Nataliya Yanchevskaya
Lecturer in Sanskrit, Princeton University