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Heroic wives : rituals, stories, and the virtues of Jain wifehood / M. Whitney Kelting.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelting, Mary Whitney.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in Jainism.
- Jaina women--Conduct of life.
- Jaina women.
- Wives--India--Conduct of life.
- Wives.
- Marriage--Religious aspects--Jainism.
- Marriage.
- Jainism--Rituals.
- Jainism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Other Title:
- Rituals, stories, and the virtues of Jain wifehood
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780190452865
- 0190452862
- 9780199736799
- 0199736790
- OCLC:
- 502284278
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb30755 hdl
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