Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West Manga and Graphic Novels when the villagers perform their

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

Mystery plays

a recently widowed outcast

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

Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West Manga and Graphic Novels when the villagers perform theirBy 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