Women's Renunciation in South Asia: Nuns, Yoginis, Saints, and Singers by Khandelwal, M.

Women's Renunciation in South Asia: Nuns, Yoginis, Saints, and Singers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403972217)

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Women's Renunciation in South Asia: Nuns, Yoginis, Saints, and Singers by Khandelwal, M.

Women's Renunciation in South Asia: Nuns, Yoginis, Saints, and Singers

$119.99
Women's Renunciation in South Asia: Nuns, Yoginis, Saints, and Singers by Khandelwal, M.

Women's Renunciation in South Asia: Nuns, Yoginis, Saints, and Singers

$119.99
Format: Hardcover
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This volume brings together compelling new research on South Asian women who have renounced worldly life for spiritual pursuits. Documenting contemporary women's experiences with intimate ethnographic narratives, this book offers feminist insights into Jain, Buddhist, Hindu and Baul ascetic traditions.

Author: M. Khandelwal
ISBN-10: 1403972214
ISBN-13: 9781403972217
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 10/24/2006
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.76w x 0.82d
By M. Khandelwal
By M. Khandelwal
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MEENA KHANDELWAL is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies, University of Iowa, USA.

SONDRA L. HAUSNER is an Anthropologist based in Kathmandu, Nepal.

ANN GRODZINS GOLD is Professor of Religion and Anthropology and Director of the South Asia Centre, Syracuse University, USA.

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