Offering flowers, feeding skulls : popular goddess worship in West Bengal /
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-352) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423756592 9781423756590 9780195347135 0195347137 1280560355 9781280560354 9780195167900 0195167902 9780195167917 0195167910 9786610560356 6610560358 |