Offering flowers, feeding skulls: popular goddess worship in West Bengal/ June McDaniel.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York: Oxford University Press, 2004Description: x, 356 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 0195167902 (cloth : alk. paper); 0195167910 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Kālī (Hindu deity) -- Cult -- India -- West Bengal | Shaktism -- India -- West Bengal | West Bengal (India) -- Religious life and customsDDC classification: 294.5514095414
Contents:
1. Folk Shaktism
Life with the Goddess,
2. Tantric and Yogic Shaktism
Knowledge of the Goddess's Ways,
3. Shakta Bhakti
Devotion to the Goddess,
4. The Great Bhakti Goddesses of West Bengal
Durga and Kali,
5. Shaktism and the Modern West
Kundalini Vacations and Tantric Honeymoons,
6. Conclusions,
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1. Folk Shaktism
Life with the Goddess,
2. Tantric and Yogic Shaktism
Knowledge of the Goddess's Ways,
3. Shakta Bhakti
Devotion to the Goddess,
4. The Great Bhakti Goddesses of West Bengal
Durga and Kali,
5. Shaktism and the Modern West
Kundalini Vacations and Tantric Honeymoons,
6. Conclusions,
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