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UNINA9910820892003321 |
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Autore |
Denton Lynn Teskey <1949-1995.> |
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Titolo |
Female ascetics in Hinduism / / Lynn Teskey Denton ; [edited by Steven Collins] |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004 |
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ISBN |
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0-7914-8462-9 |
1-4237-3956-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (229 p.) |
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Collana |
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SUNY series in Hindu studies |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Hindu women - Religious life - India - Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) |
Asceticism - Hinduism |
Ascetics - India - Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) |
Hindu monastic and religious life - India - Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-207) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Female Ascetics in Hinduism -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. The Religious Life of Woman-as-householder -- 2. The Woman Who Is Not a Householder: Widowhood, Unmarriageability, and Female Asceticism -- 3. Unity and Diversity I: Basic Terminology -- 4. Unity and Diversity II: Sectarian Affiliation, Spiritual Path, and Ascetic Mode -- 5. Socioreligious Aspects of Female Asceticism in Varanasi -- 6. Sainthood, Society, and Transcendence: Legends and Poetry of Women Saints -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Glossary of Hindu and Sanskrit Terms -- Bibliography -- Supplemental Bibliography by Meena Khandelwal -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y. |
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Female Ascetics in Hinduism provides a vivid account of the lives of women renouncers—women who renounce the world to live ascetic spiritual lives—in India. The author approaches the study of female asceticism by focusing on features of two dharmas, two religiously defined ways of life: that of woman-as-householder and that of the ascetic, who, for various reasons, falls outside the realm of |
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