Kali in Bengali Lives
Narratives of Religious Experience
Seiten
2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4633-0 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4633-0 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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.
Suchitra Samanta is associate professor at Virginia Polytechnic and State University.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.07.2021 |
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| Vorwort | Susan McKinnon |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 440 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7936-4633-3 / 1793646333 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-4633-0 / 9781793646330 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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