Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West Manga and Graphic Novels a recently widowed outcast

a recently widowed outcast

Leaving Is a Different Matter

when the villagers perform their custom of gazing up at the starry sky

emotions and cycles of your life through the 'eyes of the Goddess'

Mystery plays

Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West Manga and Graphic Novels a recently widowed outcastBy Heather Lynn Encountering Kali explores one of the most remarkable divinities the world has seen the Hindu goddess Kali. She is simultaneously understood as a blood thirsty warrior, a goddess of ritual possession, a Tantric sexual partner, and an all loving, compassionate Mother. Popular and scholarly interest in her has been on the rise in the West in recent years. Responding to this phenomenon, this volume focuses on the complexities involved in