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Female ascetics in Hinduism /

"Female Ascetics in Hinduism provides an 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Denton, Lynn Teskey, 1949-1995
Otros Autores: Collins, Steven, 1951-2018
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2004.
Colección:SUNY series in Hindu studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The religious life of woman-as-householder
  • The woman who is not a householder: widowhood, unmarriageability, and female asceticism
  • Unity and diversity I: basic terminology
  • Unity and diversity II: sectarian affiliation, spiritual path and ascetic mode
  • Socioreligious aspects of female asceticism in Varanasi
  • Sainthood, society and transcendence: legends and the poetry of women saints.