ISBN:
9780197530825
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 302 pages)
,
Illustrations (black and white, and colour).
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
DDC:
305.694508209544
Keywords:
Hindus Social life and customs
;
Dharma
;
Hinduism Social aspects
;
Hindu women Social conditions
;
Middle class women Religious life
;
Middle class women Social conditions
;
Society
;
Society & culture: general
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2023
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Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780197530795.001.0001
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197530795.001.0001
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