Description: Real Sadhus Sing to God : Gender, Asceticism, and Vernacular Religion in Rajasthan, Hardcover by Denapoli, Antoinette Elizabeth, ISBN 0199940010, ISBN-13 9780199940011, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Drawing on ethnographic research spanning ten years, Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli 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, th brings together two disparate fields of study-yoga/asceticism and bhakti-using 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 DeNapoli characterizes as their "rhetoric of renunciation."
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Book Title: Real Sadhus Sing to God : Gender, Asceticism, and Vernacular Reli
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Name: Real Sadhus Sing to God : Gender, Asceticism, and Vernacular Religion in Rajasthan
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Hinduism / Rituals & Practice, Religious, General, Women's Studies
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 28.1 Oz
Subject Area: Religion, Philosophy, Social Science
Item Length: 6.5 in
Author: Antoinette Elizabeth Denapoli
Series: Aar Religion, Culture, and History Ser.
Item Width: 9.4 in
Format: Hardcover
