Offering flowers, feeding skulls [[electronic resource] ] : popular goddess worship in West Bengal / / June McDaniel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465554903321
• Autore: McDaniel June
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004
• ISBN: 0-19-516791-0; 9786610560356; 0-19-534713-7; 1-4237-5659-2; 1-280-56035-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (367 p.)
• Disciplina: 294.5/514/095414
• Soggetti: Kālī (Hindu deity) - Cult - India - West Bengal; Shaktism - India - West Bengal; Electronic books.; West Bengal (India) Religious life and customs
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-352) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Notes on Transliteration; Introduction; 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; Notes; Diacritical List; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.