Jennifer D. Ortegren (Assistant Pr Assistant Professor of Religion

Gebundenes Buch

Middle-Class Dharma

Women, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

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