[PDF.97bs] Women in Ochre Robes: Gendering Hindu Renunciation (Suny Series in Hindu Studies)

Women in Ochre Robes: Gendering Hindu Renunciation (Suny Series in Hindu Studies)

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 | #2201628 in Books |  State University of New York Press |  2003-10-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.58 x5.50l,.76 | File type: PDF | 254 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Im an American Hindu practicing renunciation, so this book ...|By Nina Bingham|Im an American Hindu practicing renunciation, so this book helped me in more ways than I can describe. It was written objectively, from a sociological perspective, by an author who is an American Hindu. I feel she represented modern Hindusim well, especially the tension between the sexes in Indian cu| |..". This book provides richly detailed accounts of the author's many months living with, observing, and interacting with sannyasinis, their followers, and fellow ascetics. Descriptions of daily life at the ashrams, reports of long conversations, attention to

Meena Khandelwal offers an engaging and intimate portrait of extraordinary Hindu women in India who wear "ochre robes," signifying their renunciation of marriage and family for lives of celibacy, asceticism, and spiritual discipline. While the largely male Hindu ascetic tradition of sannyasa renders its initiates ritually "dead" to their previous identities, the women portrayed here are very much alive. They struggle with, and joke about, the tensions and ironies of livi...

You easily download any file type for your device.Women in Ochre Robes: Gendering Hindu Renunciation (Suny Series in Hindu Studies)   |  Meena Khandelwal.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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