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Fruits Of Worship : Practical Religion In Bengal

by Ralph W Nicholas

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  The essays collected in this books are based on field research carried out over an extended period in several villages in the Bengali-speaking area of South Asia. The center of attention is the religious life of ordinary people in rural Bengal. They cover a broad spectrum, including the Bengali attachment to goddess, the religious treatment of the calamities that befall poor people, and the analysis of myths, both historically and structurally. A long essay examines the rise of Sitala, goddess of diesease in south western Bengal in nineteenth century. It is accompanied by english translations of two versions of the Bengali Sitala narrative from that period. The Sanskrit Candi, or Sri Sri Durga Sapthasati, which is the authority for the evermore popular annual Durga puja, is analysed in relation to the worship of which it is an integral part. Also examined are the structure of the annual cycle of religious observances and the social organisation of Vaishnava and Islamic religious groups. Through detailed analysis of religious acts of ordinary people, including their rituals, the author builds up a uniquely complex picture of the world in its totality implicit in the culture of villages of the Bengal Delta ISBN : 9788180280061
 


Pages : 256
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