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Studies on Tantra in Bengal and Eastern India / edited by Madhu Khanna.

9789811930225 (electronic bk.)
9811930228 (electronic bk.)
9789811930218
981193021X

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore, 2022.

English

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (colour).

10.1007/978-981-19-3022-5 doi

BL1243.79.I4

294.513

This book explores the tantric concept of Shakti, or the principal female cosmic entity and her pilgrimage sites. It offers a first-hand view of the multidimensional ways in which Shakti asserted its supremacy over existing Vaishnava and orthodox Brahmanical traditions in post mediaeval Bengal and India. The interdisciplinary chapters pave the way to understanding the intra-textual relationships between philosophical and conceptual ideas in literary texts and their oral transmission. Divided into three thematic sections: Cult Inclusiveness, akti Pithas, and the kta Philosophy, the book invites readers to explore a contested area of scholarship from unique perspectives, offering rich insights into the nature of negotiations between diverse religious streams. It also urges readers to examine the many innovative approaches and theoretical models on the goddess culture of East India. The book is of interest to students and scholars of religious textual studies, anthropology, pilgrimage studies, comparative religion, Sanskrit and Bengali languages, regional studies, South Asian cultures, goddess traditions and cultural history of mediaeval Bengal.

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