Jennifer D. Ortegren (Assistant Pr Assistant Professor of Religion

Middle-Class Dharma

Women, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism

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Produktbeschreibung

Middle-Class Dharma is an ethnographic study of upwardly-mobile Hindu women in urban India. Jennifer D. Ortegren explores how women's shifting lifestyle choices in the middle classes are critical for shaping Hindu traditions and identity, and in doing so, argues for how we can understand class as religious.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780197530795
• ISBN-10: 0197530796
• Artikelnr.: 66717071

Autorenporträt

Jennifer D. Ortegren is Assistant Professor of Religion at Middlebury College. She specializes in the ethnographic study of religions in contemporary South Asia, particularly Hinduism and Islam, with a focus on women, ritual, and class, as well as shifting relationships between Hindu and Muslim neighbors.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures/Captions
Acknowledgments
Notes on Transliteration
"A Cast of Characters"
Introduction: Defining Middle-Class Dharma
1. Arranging Marriage, Negotiating Dharma
2. Solah Somwar and Conjugal Dharma
3. Karva Chauth and the Dharma of Neighbors
4. Ganesha Chaturthi and the Boundaries of Dharma
5. Dharma and Discomfort During Navaratri
6. New Neighborhood, New Dharma
Conclusion: Drawing on Dharma to Expand our Research and Teaching
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index