Women's Lives, Women's Rituals in the Hindu Tradition by Tracy Pintchman collections NEUF

Product Name: Women's Lives, Women's Rituals in the Hindu Tradition by Tracy Pintchman collections NEUF
EAN：9780195177077 UPC：9780195177077 ISBN：9780195177077 collections MPN：N/A Format：Paperback, 224 pages
In this book, Tracy Pintchman has assembled ten leading scholars of Hinduism to explore the complex relationship between Hindu womens rituals and their lives beyond ritual. The book focuses particularly on the relationship of womens ritual practices to domesticity, exposing and exploring the<br>nuances, complexities, and limits of this relationship. In many cultural and historical contexts, including contemporary India, womens everyday lives tend to revolve heavily around domestic and interpersonal concerns, especially care for children, the home, husbands, and other relatives. Hence, <br>womens religiosity also tends to emphasize the domestic realm and the relationships most central to women. But womens religious concerns certainly extend beyond domesticity. Furthermore, even the domestic religious activities that Hindu women perform may not merely replicate or affirm<br>traditionally formulated domestic ideals but may function strategically to reconfigure, reinterpret, criticize, or even reject such ideals.<br>This volume takes a fresh look at issues of the relationship between Hindu womens ritual practices and normative domesticity. In so doing, it emphasizes female innovation and agency in constituting and transforming both ritual and the domestic realm and calls attention to the limitations of<br>normative domesticity as a category relevant to many forms of Hindu womens religious practice..