June Mcdaniel: 2 books
Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls
Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2004
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...
Lost Ecstasy
Its Decline and Transformation in Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
This book is a study of religious ecstasy, and the ways that it has been suppressed in both the academic study of religion, and in much of the modern practice of religion. It examines the meanings of the term, how ecstatic experience is understood in a range of religions, and why the importance...