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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McDaniel, June
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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