Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal

Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal

Hardback (15 Jul 2004)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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. Drawing on years of fieldwork and extensive research, McDaniel paints a rich, expansive portrait of this fascinating religious tradition.

Book information

ISBN: 9780195167900
Publisher: OUP USA
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 294.5514095414
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 356
Weight: 698g
Height: 159mm
Width: 236mm
Spine width: 32mm