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Middle-Class Dharma : Gender, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism

Ortegren, Jennifer D. [Verfasser]

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023

Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest

1 Online-Ressource (321 pages)

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978-0-19-753080-1 ; 978-0-19-753079-5

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.