Offering flowers, feeding skulls: popular goddess worship in west bengal
Auteur :
McDaniel, June
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780195167900
Date de publication :
15 juil. 2004
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,4 cm
Poids :
708 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.