Women's renunciation in South Asia: nuns, yoginis, saints, and singers

This volume brings together new research on South Asia women who have renounced worldly life for spiritual pursuits. Documenting contemporary women's experiences with ethnographic narratives, this book offers feminist insights into Jain, Buddhist, Hindu and Baul ascetic traditions.

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2006
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Religion, culture, critique
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Zusammenfassung:This volume brings together new research on South Asia women who have renounced worldly life for spiritual pursuits. Documenting contemporary women's experiences with ethnographic narratives, this book offers feminist insights into Jain, Buddhist, Hindu and Baul ascetic traditions.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:X, 296 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:1403972214
9781403972217

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