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Women's Lives, Women's Rituals in the Hindu Tradition Hardback - 2007

by Tracy Pintchman (Editor)

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In this book, Tracy Pintchman has assembled ten leading scholars of Hinduism to explore the complex relationship between Hindu women's rituals and their lives beyond ritual. The book focuses particularly on the relationship of women's ritual practices to domesticity, exposing and exploring the nuances, complexities, and limits of this relationship. In many cultural and historical contexts, including contemporary India, women's everyday lives tend to revolve heavily around domestic and interpersonal concerns, especially care for children, the home, husbands, and other relatives. Hence, women's religiosity also tends to emphasize the domestic realm and the relationships most central to women. But women's religious concerns certainly extend beyond domesticity. Furthermore, even the domestic religious activities that Hindu women perform may not merely replicate or affirm traditionally formulated domestic ideals but may function strategically to reconfigure, reinterpret, criticize, or even reject such ideals.
This volume takes a fresh look at issues of the relationship between Hindu women's ritual practices and normative domesticity. In so doing, it emphasizes female innovation and agency in constituting and transforming both ritual and the domestic realm and calls attention to the limitations of normative domesticity as a category relevant to many forms of Hindu women's religious practice.

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  • Title Women's Lives, Women's Rituals in the Hindu Tradition
  • Author Tracy Pintchman (Editor)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2007-03-29
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780195177060 / 0195177061
  • Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.19 x 6.47 x 0.82 in (23.34 x 16.43 x 2.08 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Hindu
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Religion - World Religions
  • Library of Congress subjects Hinduism - Rituals, Hindu women - Religious life
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006021014
  • Dewey Decimal Code 294.538

About the author

Tracy Pintchman is a professor of religious studies at Loyola University Chicago and author of The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition and Guests at God's Wedding: Celebrating Kartik among the Women of Benares.
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