Women in Ochre Robes

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  • Women in Ochre Robes Book Detail

  • Author : Meena Khandelwal
  • Release Date : 2012-02-01
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 255
  • ISBN 13 : 0791485951
  • File Size : 88,88 MB

Women in Ochre Robes by Meena Khandelwal PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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