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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: McDaniel, June
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Sujets:
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
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Folk Shaktism: life with the goddess.
  • Tantric and yogic Shaktism: knowledge of the goddess's ways.
  • Shakta Bhakti: devotion to the goddess.
  • The great Bhakti goddesses of West Bengal: Durga and Kali.
  • Shaktism and the modern West: Kundalini vacations and tantric honeymoons.

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