Roles and Rituals for Hindu WomenJulia Leslie The considerable interest currently being expressed in women and religion has thrown down an important challenge; the need to see women not merely as the passive victims of an oppressive ideology but also perhaps primarily as the active agents of their own positive constructs. This book therefore aims to fill a notable gap in the literature. Twelve contributors study the role of women in Hindu religion by examining textual studies of the part played by women in a variety of religion rituals, both past and present, by exploring the socio-religious context of their various communites; and by using specialist material to draw on cross-cultural conclusions. |
Contents
Introduction Julia Leslie | 1 |
The Pursuit of Salvation | 9 |
Indras Curse Varunas Noose and the Suppression of | 17 |
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Marital Expectations as Dramatized in Hindu Marriage Rituals | 47 |
Motive and Intention in the Votive Rites of Hindu | 71 |
Conclusions | 87 |
Ambivalent Role Models for Women | 107 |
Victim or Victor? Julia Leslie | 175 |
Women in the ŚaivaŚākta Ethos Sanjukta Gupta | 189 |
Akkā Mahadevī of Karnataka | 196 |
Three Vaisnava PoetessSaints | 202 |
Varieties of Hindu Female Asceticism Lynn Teskey Denton | 211 |
Different Relationships with the Social World | 218 |
Women Who Do Not Return | 230 |
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