Denapoli Antoinette Elizabeth (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor University Of Wyoming)
Denapoli Antoinette Elizabeth (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor University Of Wyoming) - Real Sadhus Sing To God Gender Asceticism And Vernacular Religion In Rajasthan - Paperback
Denapoli Antoinette Elizabeth (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor University Of Wyoming) - Real Sadhus Sing To God Gender Asceticism And Vernacular Religion In Rajasthan - Paperback
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Description: Drawing on ethnographic research spanning ten years Antoinette Elizabeth De Napoli offers a new perspective on the practice of asceticism in India today. Her work brings to light the little known and often marginalized lives of female Hindu ascetics (sadhus) in the North Indian state of Rajasthan. Examining the everyday religious worlds and practices of the mostly unlettered female sadhus who come from a number of castes Real Sadhus Sing to God illustrates that these women experience asceticism in relational and celebratory ways. They construct their lives as paths of singing to God which the author suggests serves as the female way of being an ascetic. Examining the relationship between asceticism (sannyas) and devotion (bhakti) in contemporary contexts the book brings together two disparate fields of studyyoga/asceticism and bhaktiusing the singing of bhajans (devotional songs) as an orienting metaphor. This is the first book - length study to explore the ways in which female sadhus perform and thus create gendered views of asceticism through their singing storytelling and sacred text practices which De Napoli characterizes as their "rhetoric of renunciation".
Title: Real Sadhus Sing To God Gender Asceticism And Vernacular Religion In Rajasthan
Author(s): Denapoli Antoinette Elizabeth (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor University Of Wyoming)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780199940035
Pages: 384 Pages, 21 Illus.
Publication Date: 5/1/2014
Series: AAR Religion, Culture, and History
Category: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography
Description: Drawing on ethnographic research spanning ten years Antoinette Elizabeth De Napoli offers a new perspective on the practice of asceticism in India today. Her work brings to light the little known and often marginalized lives of female Hindu ascetics (sadhus) in the North Indian state of Rajasthan. Examining the everyday religious worlds and practices of the mostly unlettered female sadhus who come from a number of castes Real Sadhus Sing to God illustrates that these women experience asceticism in relational and celebratory ways. They construct their lives as paths of singing to God which the author suggests serves as the female way of being an ascetic. Examining the relationship between asceticism (sannyas) and devotion (bhakti) in contemporary contexts the book brings together two disparate fields of studyyoga/asceticism and bhaktiusing the singing of bhajans (devotional songs) as an orienting metaphor. This is the first book - length study to explore the ways in which female sadhus perform and thus create gendered views of asceticism through their singing storytelling and sacred text practices which De Napoli characterizes as their "rhetoric of renunciation".
Title: Real Sadhus Sing To God Gender Asceticism And Vernacular Religion In Rajasthan
Author(s): Denapoli Antoinette Elizabeth (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor University Of Wyoming)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780199940035
Pages: 384 Pages, 21 Illus.
Publication Date: 5/1/2014
Series: AAR Religion, Culture, and History
Category: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography
