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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)
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 provides a broad, accessibly written overview of Bengali goddess worship.
366 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 5, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195167917 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 368 |
| Dimensions | 153 × 220 × 22 mm · 539 g |
| Language | English |