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Offering flowers, feeding skulls popular goddess worship in West Bengal

Author:June McDaniel

Summary: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

eBook, English, 2011

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York, 2011

Genre:Llibres electrònics

Physical Description:1 online resource (1 recurs electrònic (x, 356 p.))

ISBN:

9780199849970, 9781423756590, 9780195347135, 0199849978, 1423756592, 0195347137

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1120440762

Subjects:

Bengala Occidental (Índia) Vida religiosa i costums

Kali (Divinitat hindú) Culte

Llibres electrònics

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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