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Kali in Bengali Lives

Narratives of Religious Experience
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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, collegiate faculty at Virginia Tech.
Part I: Framing Religious Experience in Theory and Indigenous Belief Chapter 1: Interpreting Kali: A History and Western Perspectives Chapter 2: Indigenous Epistemology: Relevatory 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's 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 Offerings to Kali, Experiences of Well-Being and Calamity Conclusion
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