Ritual Worship of the Great Goddess »

The Durga Puja is an elaborate ritual of worship (puja) of the Great Goddess beginning on the sixth of a nine-night autumnal festival during the Indian lunar month of Asvina. Rodrigues (anthropology and religious studies, U. of Lethbridge) primarily describes the activities of ritual, but also comments on what it reveals about Hindu rituals in general and the Goddess herself. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR