In this groundbreaking book, Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli examines the everyday religious worlds and lived practices of female Hindu ascetics (sadhus) in the north Indian state of Rajasthan. This book is the first book-length study to explore the ways that female sadhus perform and create gendered views of asceticism through their singing, storytelling, and sacred text practices .
In this groundbreaking book, Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli examines the everyday religious worlds and lived practices of female Hindu ascetics (sadhus) in the north Indian state of Rajasthan. This book is the first book-length study to explore the ways that female sadhus perform and create gendered views of asceticism through their singing, storytelling, and sacred text practices .
Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Wyoming.
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* Acknowledgements * A Note on Transliteration and Translation * Introduction: Orienting Metaphors: Singing Bhajans as Devotional Asceticism * Chapter 1: Performing Asceticism and Redefining Definitional Boundaries * Chapter 2: "By the Sweetness of the Tongue": Performing Female Agency in Personal Narrative * Chapter 3: "Forget Happiness! Give me Suffering Instead.": Negotiating Gender and Asceticism in Religious Narrative * Chapter 4: "On the Battlefield of Bhakti": Gender and Caste in Vernacular Asceticism * Chapter 5: "I myself am Shabari!": A Tribal Sadhu's Journey of Singing Bhajans * Chapter 6: "Even the Black Cuckoo Sings Beautifully": Challenge and Reconfiguration in the Practices of a Khatik Sadhu * Chapter 7: "Write the Text in Your Heart": Non-literacy, Authority, and Female Sadhus' Performances of Asceticism through Sacred Texts * Chapter 8: "Real Sadhus Sing to God": Performing Sant Asceticism in Vernacular Singing * Conclusion: "Meeting and Parting in the Melâ of Life": Vernacular Asceticism in Rajasthan * Notes * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgements * A Note on Transliteration and Translation * Introduction: Orienting Metaphors: Singing Bhajans as Devotional Asceticism * Chapter 1: Performing Asceticism and Redefining Definitional Boundaries * Chapter 2: "By the Sweetness of the Tongue": Performing Female Agency in Personal Narrative * Chapter 3: "Forget Happiness! Give me Suffering Instead.": Negotiating Gender and Asceticism in Religious Narrative * Chapter 4: "On the Battlefield of Bhakti": Gender and Caste in Vernacular Asceticism * Chapter 5: "I myself am Shabari!": A Tribal Sadhu's Journey of Singing Bhajans * Chapter 6: "Even the Black Cuckoo Sings Beautifully": Challenge and Reconfiguration in the Practices of a Khatik Sadhu * Chapter 7: "Write the Text in Your Heart": Non-literacy, Authority, and Female Sadhus' Performances of Asceticism through Sacred Texts * Chapter 8: "Real Sadhus Sing to God": Performing Sant Asceticism in Vernacular Singing * Conclusion: "Meeting and Parting in the Melâ of Life": Vernacular Asceticism in Rajasthan * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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