- 161 pages
- English
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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 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: The Guru as Conduit for Kali/Sakti, Disciples’ 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: Devotional Practices and Experiences
- Chapter 8: Sacrificial Offering to Kali, Experiences of Well-being and Calamity
- Conclusion
- Afterword
- Appendix: Select Names of Deities, Concepts, and Texts, with Diacritical Marks
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author