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Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls
Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal
E-bok, 2004
514 kr
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The Indian state of West Bengal is home to one of the world''s most vibrant traditions of goddess worship. The year''s biggest holidays are devoted to the goddesses Durga and Kali, with lavish rituals, decorated statues, fireworks, and parades. In Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls , June McDaniel …
Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls
Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal
Inbunden, 2004
1683 kr
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In Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls, June McDaniel provides an exhaustive, accessibly written overview of Bengali goddess worship or Shakti. McDaniel identifies three major forms of goddess worship, and examines each through its myths, folklore, songs, rituals, sacred texts, and practitioners. …
Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls
Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal
Häftad, 2004
667 kr
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The Indian state of West Bengal is home to one of the world's most vibrant traditions of goddess worship. The year's biggest holidays are devoted to the goddesses Durga and Kali, with lavish rituals, decorated statues, fireworks, and parades. In Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls, June McDaniel …
Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls
Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal
E-bok, 2004
514 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Indian state of West Bengal is home to one of the world''s most vibrant traditions of goddess worship. The year''s biggest holidays are devoted to the goddesses Durga and Kali, with lavish rituals, decorated statues, fireworks, and parades. In Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls , June McDaniel …
Madness of the Saints
Ecstatic Religion in Bengal
Häftad, 1989
398 kr
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Although ecstasy has been explored in several Indian contexts, surprisingly little scholarship has been devoted to its central role in Bengali devotion. In The Madness of the Saints, June McDaniel undertakes the first comprehensive study of religious ecstasy in Bengal, examining the texts that …
Making Virtuous Daughters and Wives
An Introduction to Women's Brata Rituals in Bengali Folk Religion
Häftad, 2002
430 kr
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An exploration of Hindu women's folk religion focusing on goddess worship and women's rituals.Exploring the folk religion of India and the role of girls and women within it, author June McDaniel focuses on the brata (vrata) ritual in which moral lessons are taught and goddesses are revealed. Bratas …
Lost Ecstasy
Its Decline and Transformation in Religion
Häftad, 2018
1310 kr
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This book is a study of religious ecstasy, and the ways that it has been suppressed in both the academic study of religion, and in much of the modern practice of religion. It examines the meanings of the term, how ecstatic experience is understood in a range of religions, and why the importance of …
Lost Ecstasy
Its Decline and Transformation in Religion
Inbunden, 2018
1310 kr
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This book is a study of religious ecstasy, and the ways that it has been suppressed in both the academic study of religion, and in much of the modern practice of religion. It examines the meanings of the term, how ecstatic experience is understood in a range of religions, and why the importance of …
Lost Ecstasy
Its Decline and Transformation in Religion
E-bok, 2018
1728 kr
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This book is a study of religious ecstasy, and the ways that it has been suppressed in both the academic study of religion, and in much of the modern practice of religion. It examines the meanings of the term, how ecstatic experience is understood in a range of religions, and why the importance of …
Madness of the Saints
Ecstatic Religion in the Bengal
Inbunden, 2025
920 kr
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Although ecstasy has been explored in several Indian contexts, surprisingly little scholarship has been devoted to its central role in Bengali devotion. In The Madness of the Saints, June McDaniel undertakes the first comprehensive study of religious ecstasy in Bengal
