Kali in Bengali Lives (eBook)

Narratives of Religious Experience

Suchitra Samanta (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
160 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4634-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2021
• Vorwort: Susan McKinnon
• Zusatzinfo: 5 Illustrations including: - 5 Black & White Illustrations.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: balidan • Bengali religion • Bhakti • devotional practice • Gurus • hierophany • Hindu devotion • Hinduism in Bangladesh • Kali worship • miraculous experience • religious narratives • religious visions • sakti
• ISBN-10: 1-7936-4634-1 / 1793646341
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7936-4634-7 / 9781793646347