Kali in Bengali Lives: Narratives of Religious Experience
Author:   Suchitra Samanta ,  Susan McKinnon
Publisher:   Lexington Books
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Pages:   160
Publication Date:   15 August 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Kali in Bengali Lives: Narratives of Religious Experience


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In Kali in Bengali Lives, Suchitra Samanta examines Bengalis’ personal narratives of Kali devotion in the Bhakti tradition. These personal experiences, including miraculous encounters, reflect on broader understandings of divine power. Where the revelatory experience has long been validated in Indian epistemology, the devotees’ own interpretive framework provides continuity within a paradigm of devotion and of the miraculous experience as intuitive insight (anubhuti) into a larger truth. Through these unique insights, the miraculous experience is felt in its emotional power, remembered, and reflected upon. The narratives speak to how the meaning of a religious figure, Kali, becomes personally significant and ultimately transformative of the devotee’s self.

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Author:   Suchitra Samanta ,  Susan McKinnon
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781793646330


ISBN 10:   1793646333
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   15 August 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Table 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

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

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