Offering flowers, feeding skulls : popular goddess worship in West Bengal /

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In 'Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls', June McDaniel provides an overview of Bengali goddess worship or Shakti. She identifies three major forms of goddess worship, and examines each through its myths, folklore, songs, rituals, sacred texts, and practitioners, tracing these strands through...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McDaniel, June
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Temas:
Kālī > (Hindu deity) > Cult > India > West Bengal.
Kālī > (Hindu deity)
Shaktism > India > West Bengal.
Çaktisme > Inde > Bengale-Occidental.
RELIGION > Hinduism > General.
Cults
Shaktism
West Bengal (India) > Religious life and customs.
India > West Bengal
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In 'Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls', June McDaniel provides an overview of Bengali goddess worship or Shakti. She identifies three major forms of goddess worship, and examines each through its myths, folklore, songs, rituals, sacred texts, and practitioners, tracing these strands through Bengali culture.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 356 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-352) and index.
ISBN:1423756592
9781423756590
9780195347135
0195347137
1280560355
9781280560354
9780195167900
0195167902
9780195167917
0195167910
9786610560356
6610560358

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