Female ascetics in Hinduism
by Denton, Lynn Shirley Teskey
fromSUNY series in Hindu studies
Female ascetics in Hinduism
by Collins, Steven, Denton, Lynn Teskey
fromSUNY series in Hindu studies
"Female Ascetics in Hinduism provides an account of the lives of women renouncers - women who renounce the world to live ascetic spiritual lives - in India. The author approaches the study of female asceticism by focusing on features of two dharmas, two religiously defined ways …
Scope and content: "An Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a highly significant but poorly understood aspect of material culture studies: the active rejection of the material world. This is evident in a number of cultural projects, including anti-consumerism and asceticism, a…