PUBLICATIONS - JUNE MCDANIEL

Books:

 

The Madness of the Saints:   Ecstatic Religion in Bengal (Chicago:   University of Chicago Press, 1989)

 

Making Virtuous Daughters and Wives:   An Introduction to the Brata Rituals of Bengal (Albany:   State University of New York Press, 2002)

 

Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls:   Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal (Oxford:   Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2004)

 

 

Articles:

 

“Blue Lotuses Everywhere:   Divine Love in Gaudiya Vaisnava and Catholic Mysticism” in Journal of Vaisnava Studies , Winter 1996-1997

 

“Emotion in Bengali Thought:   Substance and Metaphor” in Emotions in Asian Thought:   A Dialogue in Comparative Philosophy, ed. Joel Marks and Roger T. Ames (Albany:   State University of New York Press, 1995)

 

“Mysticism, Madness and Ecstasy in the Gaudiya Tradition in Vaisnavism” in Contemporary Scholars Discuss the Gaudiya Tradition , ed. Steven Rosen (New York:   Folk Books, 1992)

 

“The Embodiment of God Among the Bauls of Bengal” in Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion , Fall 1992.

 

 

Papers:

 

AAR 2003- “My Mother, Myself:   Female Mystical Identity in Bengali Shaktism”

 

AAR 2000- “ Mahabhava and Bhavavesa :   Divine Madness in Vaisnava Mystical Theology”

 

AAR 1997- “Psychological Development and Mystical Transformation:   Hindu Saints and the Spiritual Life”

 

Colloquium on Women Mystics, 1995- “Fusion of the Soul- Jayashri Ma and the Primordial Mother”

 

Conference on Crazy Wisdom and Divine Madness, 1992- “Ecstasy and Madness Among the Saints and Gurus of India”

 

Conference on Visionary Experience, 1990- “Liquid Visions:   The Fluidity of Divine Perception Among the Bauls of Bengal”

 

Society for Tantric Studies, 1988- “Styles of Tantric Ecstasy”