Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal Andrew Thomson ” —The New York Times

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Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal Andrew Thomson ” —The New York TimesThe Indian state of West Bengal is home to one of the world's most vibrant traditions of goddess worship. The year's biggest holidays are devoted to the goddesses Durga and Kali, with lavish rituals, decorated statues, fireworks, and parades. In Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls, June McDaniel provides a broad, accessibly written overview of Bengali goddess worship. McDaniel identifies three major forms of goddess worship, and examines each through its