Kali in Bengali Lives - Narratives of Religious Experience

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Suchitra Samanta, Samanta Suchitra
• Assisted by: McKinnon Susan (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781793646330
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-633-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Bangladesh, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, RELIGION / Hinduism / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Hinduism, Social and cultural anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies