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In Their Own Words

June McDaniel, PhD’86

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  • Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal
  • ISBN 0195167902
  • Oxford University Press

This book identifies three major forms of goddess worship in modern West Bengal, and examines each through its myths, folklore, songs, rituals, sacred texts and practitioners. It takes the reader inside the lives of practicing Shaktas, including holy women, hymn singers, philosophers, visionaries, gurus, ascetics, healers, musicians and businessmen, in order to gain insight into their religious lives and values.

Posted April 15, 2005