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Książka Heroic Wives M.Whitney Kelting

Heroic Wives

Rituals, Stories and the Virtues of Jain Wifehood

Autor: M.Whitney Kelting
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
Wydawca: Oxford University Press Inc
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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Although in Hinduism it is mainly used to refer to widow immolation, the term 'sati' means 'true wom...

Informacje o książce

Autor
M.Whitney Kelting
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
Data wydania
2009
strony
264
EAN
9780195389647
ISBN
0195389646
Enbook ID
04519139
Wydawca
Oxford University Press Inc
Waga
532
Wymiary
160 x 243 x 25

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Although in Hinduism it is mainly used to refer to widow immolation, the term 'sati' means 'true woman' - a female hero. Whitney Kelting has learned that in Jainism satis appear as subjects of devotional hymns. This seems paradoxical, given that Jain spirituality is to disengage oneself from worldly existence and Jain devotionalism is usually directed toward those souls who have reached perfect detachment. In fact, however, there is a vast corpus of popular texts, many of them written by prominent scholar-monks between the 16th and 18th centuries, illustrating the distinctly worldly virtues of devoted Jain wives. In this fieldwork-based study, Kelting explores the ways in which Jain women use sati narratives and rituals to understand wifehood as a choice, which these women's ongoing ritual practices continually shape. She focuses on eight well-known Jain sati narratives, recorded in both formal ritual contexts and in informal retellings, and also as read aloud from printed versions. She finds that one of the principal functions of Jain sati narratives is to contribute to a discourse of wifehood, which addresses the concerns of Jain laywomen within the Jain value system and provides a fertile context in which Jain women can explore their questions of virtue and piety.

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