Ebook: Offering flowers, feeding skulls popular goddess worship in West Bengal

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.;Folk Shaktism: life with the goddess. -- Tantric and yogic Shaktism: knowledge of the goddess's ways. -- Shakta Bhakti: devotion to the goddess. -- The great Bhakti goddesses of West Bengal: Durga and Kali. -- Shaktism and the modern West: Kundalini vacations and tantric honeymoons