The daily Ananda Bazaar of August 11 has covered it as a news item. The reporter has seen this positively. Obviously there is a risk that many will have negative impression about the Hindu religion. Those who have watched Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the temple of doom know already about goddess Kali.
Joseph Campbell has called Hinduism a tribal religion. Obviously at least one aspect of it is so. The Upanishads may not be called tribal. That a religion is tribal does not reduce it to a lesser religion. Joseph Campbell, a scholar on comparative mythology and religion, has never undermined this tribal aspect of Hinduism.
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On Aug 10, 2015, at 6:37 PM, Farida Majid farida_majid@hotmail.com [mukto-mona] <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Goddess Kali on Empire State Building, New York, New York. Now, if Americans can only find out that this goddess of ours wears no clothes, and dances naked on the cremation ground, and keeps chopping heads of demons. And that her husband Shiva smokes pot. Oh, what a scandal! smile emoticon smile emoticon
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