Suchitra Samanta

Kali in Bengali Lives

Narratives of Religious Experience

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Produktbeschreibung

In Kali in Bengali Lives, Suchitra Samanta examines personal narratives of Kali devotion in Bangladesh. These personal experiences, including miraculous encounters, reflect on broader understandings of divine power and transformations of the self.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9781793646330
• ISBN-10: 1793646333
• Artikelnr.: 62119424

Autorenporträt

Suchitra Samanta is associate professor at Virginia Polytechnic and State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Framing Religious Experience in Theory and Indigenous Belief
Chapter 1: Interpreting Kali: A History, and Western Perspectives
Chapter 2: Indigenous Epistemology: Revelatory Knowledge as Valid
Chapter 3: On Narrative: Autobiographical Recollection, Interpreting the
Miraculous Experience
Part II: Narratives of experience
Chapter 4: Devotional Practices and Experiences
Chapter 5: Alokebabu, Kali Devotee: A Guru as His Disciples see Him
Chapter 6: Bani's Many Gurus: Her Spiritual Journey to Receiving Kali
Chapter 7: Experiences Associated with Devotional Practices
Chapter 8: Sacrificial Offering to Kali, Experiences of Well-being and
Calamity