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" Offering flowers, feeding skulls : "
June McDaniel.
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1025016
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b779386
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McDaniel, June.
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Offering flowers, feeding skulls : : popular goddess worship in West Bengal /\ June McDaniel.
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2004.
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1 online resource (x, 356 pages)
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0195167902
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: 0195167910
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: 0195347137
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: 1423756592
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: 6610560358
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: 9780195167900
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: 9780195167917
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: 9780195347135
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: 9781280560354
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: 9781423756590
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0195167902
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0195167910
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-352) and index.
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| Contents
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Folk Shaktism: life with the goddess. -- Tantric and yogic Shaktism: knowledge of the goddess's ways. -- Shakta Bhakti: devotion to the goddess. -- The great Bhakti goddesses of West Bengal: Durga and Kali. -- Shaktism and the modern West: Kundalini vacations and tantric honeymoons.
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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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Kālī-- Cult-- India-- West Bengal.
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Kālī
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Shaktism-- India-- West Bengal.
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Cults.
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RELIGION-- Hinduism-- General.
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Shaktism.
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West Bengal (India), Religious life and customs.
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India, West Bengal.
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294.5/514/095414
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BL1225.K33W36 2004eb
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