The Hindu Divine Mother is revered by millions of religious practitioners in India and elsewhere, yet this goddess rarely receives attention in Western philosophy of religion. Focusing especially (though not exclusively) on her form as Kālī, this article utilizes sources from Hindu goddess traditions to explicate her contrasting characteristics, which include benign maternality and martial aggression. By adapting an embodied theological (or thealogical) approach derived from feminist discourse, the intelligibility of worshipping such a goddess is expounded; connections are delineated between the conceptualizing of divinity as radically ambivalent or multivalent and the lived experience of inhabiting an often hostile world.

印度教的神圣母亲在印度和其他地方受到数百万宗教从业者的崇敬，但这位女神在西方宗教哲学中很少受到关注。本文特别关注（但不完全是）她作为 Kālī 的形式，利用来自印度教女神传统的资料来解释她的对比特征，包括善良的母性和好斗的侵略性。通过采用源自女权主义话语的具身神学（或神学）方法，阐述了崇拜这样一位女神的可理解性；将神性概念化为极端矛盾或多价的概念与居住在一个经常充满敌意的世界的生活经验之间的联系被描绘出来。