Real Sadhus Sing to God - Gender, Asceticism, and Vernacular Religion in Rajasthan

In this groundbreaking book, Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli examines the everyday religious worlds and lived practices of female Hindu ascetics (sadhus) in the north Indian state of Rajasthan. This book is the first book-length study to explore the ways that female sadhus perform and create gendered views of asceticism through their singing, storytelling, and sacred text practices .

About the author

Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Wyoming.

Summary

In this groundbreaking book, Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli examines the everyday religious worlds and lived practices of female Hindu ascetics (sadhus) in the north Indian state of Rajasthan. This book is the first book-length study to explore the ways that female sadhus perform and create gendered views of asceticism through their singing, storytelling, and sacred text practices .

Additional text

DeNapoli's engaging and spirited ethnography offers original insights into complex intersections of gender with social hierarchies, world-renunciation, and the poetics of devotional experience. Vivid and memorable portraits of strong female characters reveal how deep religious convictions may equally provide unflinching critiques of everyday constraints on women's embodied lives. Delightfully readable and teachable!

Product details

• Authors: Antoinette Elizabeth Denapoli, Antoinette Elizabeth (Assistant Professo Denapoli, DeNapoli Antoinette Elizabeth
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.06.2014
• EAN: 9780199940011
• ISBN: 978-0-19-994001-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: AAR Religion, Culture, and History; AAR Religion, Culture, and History; AAR Religion, Culture, and His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, India, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, RELIGION / Hinduism / Rituals & Practice, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Hindu Life & Practice, Hindu life and practice