The tantric Goddess spirituality of Hinduism is relevant in the contemporary world where eco-awareness has caused a change in conventional notions of life and living beings. without an expansively and radically altered notion of death we cannot perhaps insist on an altered and expanded notion of life. This book argues that altering conventional ideas of life and death is possible through critical engagement with certain age-old cultural and religious forms in India. It explores the figurations of the Goddess as corpse in several Hindu tantric texts, popular practices, folk belief systems, legends and literary texts based on this motif. The Great Goddess, in her various puranic and tantric forms, is often figured as sitting on a corpse which is identified as Shiva-as-shava (God Shiva, the consort of the Devi and an iconic representation of the Absolute without attributes, the Nirguna Brahman). The author analyses the corpse motif in Shaktism and tantra mainly from the contemporary ecocritical and feminist cultural theories that seek to theorize life and death in radically new ways. The book investigates the tantric corpse from the critical perspective of Irigaray's "ethics of sexual difference": while the corpse as Shiva is the transcendent Absolute detached from the plurality constituting life, the corpse as Devi is life-sustaining and life-promoting, not singular but plural, and not detached from life but interwoven with life in most unexpected ways. It explores how the corpse of the Devi/ the corpse as the Devi, whether in the myth of Sati or in the practice of Shava Sadhana, emerges as an active corpse, as opposed to the passive corpse figured as Shiva. Deploying rigorous deconstructive methods to decode cultural performances as well as scriptural texts, literary works and folk legends, the author combines these methods with ethnographic research. He takes up comparatist methodology, bringing into the critical fold of this book, amongst others, the epistemic implications of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Dionysus and Isis-Osiris myths, the practice of Jivanta Samadhi (self-entombment of tantric saints while they are alive) in various marginal religious sects and sub-sects within Hinduism and the cross-cultural practices of raising the dead. This book makes an important contribution to the fields of Hindu Studies, Goddess Spirituality, South Asian Religions, Women and Religion, India, Studies in Shaktism and Tantra, Cross-cultural Religious Studies, Gender Studies, Postcolonial Spirituality and Ecofeminism.