Showing all 2 books
The volume highlights a uniform cult Tradition of non-literate masses of an area of South Bengal. The Study shows how do folk-cults maingain their identity in the Face of a contact situation and retain their core elements in a comparatively distinctive manner.
Faith healing etc., is the result of a field investigation undertaken in the villages of Deltaic districts of West Bengal. The author has tried to understand the mental construct of the folk mind that has its own logic to observe the world of flora keenly in search of healing curative, to adhere to ismorphism, to evaluate the role of spirit-deities who both cure and inflict curse and to appreciate the expertise of faith healers whose service to the community is ...