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Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal McDaniel, June (Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, College of Charleston)
Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal
McDaniel, June (Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, College of Charleston)
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.
366 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 5, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195167900 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 368 |
| Dimensions | 236 × 159 × 32 mm · 707 g |
| Language | English |