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Women, Religion and the Body in South Asia : Living with Bengali Bauls.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milton :
Routledge,
2018.
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| Colección: | Routledge South Asian Religion Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Key characters; Preface; Introduction; A historical perspective; Coming to know a family of Vaishnavas and Bauls; Chapter outline; Style of writing; Notes; 1. Life stories: taking the plunge; Sunita: housekeeping; Muni Baba: seeking spiritual wisdom; Tara: a young girl goes begging; Tara's first flow; Ceremony of initiation: a mother and a daughter; Courtship: love between neighbors; Karun: playing the flute, herding the cows; Kalpana: a promising student.
- Tara's Vaishnava wedding: white and yellow flowersBuilding a house; Nothing new; Notes; 2. Caste, honor and devotion; Caste and class; The Brahman caste; The greatest caste; Rai Das: a caste framed as dirty; Muchi Ram Das I: a loving low-caste man; Muchi Ram Das II: love and dirt; Suffering as self-restraint; Mother Santasi: women suffer more; Setting themselves apart; Householders and sadhus; Worshiping Mother Sarasvati: "Brahmans are ignorant"; Brahman and Vaishnava ceremonies of initiation; Worshiping Shiva: the head and the phallus; Notes; 3. Gardens of delight: food and yogic sex.
- Body songsRetaining seed; Lentil soup; Seed in body substances; Flowers in the body; Rup; At the ashram; Thoughts and emotions; Performing songs; Muni Baba suffers from tuberculosis; Notes; 4. Begging and initiation; Reciprocity; Singing on the trains; The guru-disciple bond; Dayal guru; Substances exuded by the guru; Greed and desire; Mantras and seed; Red and white; Will Papay get a sannyas mantra?; Shame as a key emotion; Visiting Dayal guru; Notes; 5. Festivals and programs; Women's dress and comportment; The festival called Paus; The festival called Shaktighar in Kolkata.
- The festival called Jay DebSinging in villages; Money and food: dakshina and seva; Lack of patrons; Concluding remarks; Notes; 6. Death in the family; The mouth fire ceremony; The Jat Vaishnava burial; Honey in the mouth of the dead; Salting the body of the dead; Are Jat Vaishnava ignorant?; Jat Vaishnava self-control; The demise of Hira's grandfather: a layman's death; Village border ceremonies (ghather shraddha); Fasting for the dead; Pinda offerings to the deceased; House ceremonies (gharer shraddha); Keeping apart; Concluding remarks; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.