Title Women in ochre robes : gendering Hindu renunciation / Meena Khandelwal

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) Series SUNY series in Hindu studies SUNY series in Hindu studies. Contents Women In Ochre Robes -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Sannyasinis as Persons -- 1. Gendering Hindu Renunciation -- 2. Walking a Tightrope: Renunciation as Love -- 3. Real Saints Donâ€?t Need Sleep: Renunciation as Service -- 4. (Ir?)reconcilable Tensions: Individual Existence as Spiritual Journey -- 5. The Genuine and The Fake: Whatâ€?s Attitude Got to Do with It? -- 6. Sannyasinis as Women -- Notes -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L MN -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y Summary "Meena Khandelwal offers an engaging and intimate portrait of extraordinary Hindu women in India who wear "ochre robes," signifying their renunciation of marriage and family for lives of celibacy, asceticism, and spiritual discipline. While the largely male Hindu ascetic tradition of sannyasa renders its initiates ritually "dead" to their previous identities, the women portrayed here are very much alive. They struggle with, and joke about, the tensions and ironies of living in the world while trying not to be of it." "Khandelwal juxtaposes the common refrain that "in renunciation there is no male and female" with arguments that underscore the importance of gender. In exploring these apparent contradictions, she brings together worldly and otherworldly values within renunciation and argues that these create tensions that are at once emotional, social, and philosophical."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index Notes English Subject Sannyasi -- India -- Haridwār Asceticism -- Hinduism. RELIGION -- Hinduism -- General. Asceticism -- Hinduism Sannyasi Frau Sannyasin India -- Haridwār Hardwar Form Electronic book LC no. 2002045254 ISBN 9780791485958 0791485951 9780791459225 0791459225

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