Women's Renunciation in South Asia : Nuns, Yoginis, Saints, and Singers
ISBN: 9781137104854
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan
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Subjects: Social Science;

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

MEENA KHANDELWAL is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies, University of Iowa, USA.

SONDRA L. HAUSNER is an Anthropologist based in Kathmandu, Nepal.

ANN GRODZINS GOLD is Professor of Religion and Anthropology and Director of the South Asia Centre, Syracuse University, USA.

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