The dead speak: A case study from the tiwa tribe highlighting the hybrid world of sakta tantra in assam

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Sravana Borkataky-Varma, Instructor (Creator)

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The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW )

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Abstract: In this paper, we shall examine how possession is understood in Assam, India. We are aware that the larger northeastern frontier of India retained indigenous practices, religious festivals, and beliefs in a plethora of exotic goddesses, rituals, which have continued unabated through modern times. This has resulted in cross-pollination between the Vedic or traditional Brahmanical or orthodox Hindu practices and the indigenous practices, which in turn has yielded a hybrid world of Sakta Tantra rituals and practices.

The dead speak: A case study from the tiwa tribe highlighting the hybrid world of sakta tantra in assam
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Borkataky-Varma, S. (2017). The dead speak: a case study from the tiwa tribe highlighting the hybrid world of sakta tantra in assam. Religions, 8(10), 221. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.3390/rel8100221

Language: English

Date: 2017

Keywords

Tantra, Assam, Possession

Subjects

Tantric Buddhism—Rituals

Shaktism—Rituals

Spirit possession—Buddhism, [Christianity, etc.]

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