BOOK REVIEWS
Kali and related

Detailed reviews of books about Goddess Kali,
Kali-related Tantra, Kali-like figures in dreams...


The Adbhut Ramayana
translated by Shantilal Nagar

The text in which Shiva throws himself beneath Kali's feet

Dancing in the Flames
by Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson

The Dark Goddess in the dreams of ordinary humans

Devoted to the Goddess
by Malcolm McLean

Ramprasad's Kali songs: bhakti, tantra or both?

Encountering Kali
ed Rachel Fell McDermott and Jeffrey Kripal

Diverse answers to important questions about Kali

Kali: the Black Goddess of Dakshineswar
by Elizabeth U. Harding

Where Sri Ramakrishna worshipped Kali

Tree with a dark and light flower, book in foreground
Drawing © Colin Robinson 1999
Kali's Child
by Jeffrey J. Kripal

Freudian theories about
Sri Ramakrishna

Renowned Goddess of Desire
by Loriliai Biernacki

A feminist look at tantric works

Singing to the Goddess
Mother of my Heart, Daughter of my Dreams

by Rachel Fell McDermott

Bengali Goddess songs and their cultural context

Sir John Woodroffe, Tantra and Bengal
by Kathleen Taylor

How a judge worked with adepts to defend Tantra

Song of Kali
by Dan Simmons

Novel about an underground
cult in Calcutta

Tantra: Hedonism in Indian Culture
by Prem Saran

An Indian tantric initiate affirms
the worth of pleasure



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