Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West Manga and Graphic Novels Leaving Is a Different Matter

Leaving Is a Different Matter

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Channel the fierce and mysterious energy of the ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet

a recently widowed outcast

the contributors pose questions relevant to our understanding of Kali

Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West Manga and Graphic Novels Leaving Is a Different MatterBy 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