Middle-class dharma : gender, aspiration, and the making of contemporary Hinduism / Jennifer D. Ortegren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ortegren, Jennifer D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dharma.

Hinduism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Middle-Class Dharma

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Notes on Transliteration

Women in Pulan and Beyond: A Cast of Characters

Introduction: Defining Middle-​Class Dharma

1. Arranging Marriage, Negotiating Dharma

2. Solah Somwar and Conjugal Dharma

3. Karva Chauth and the Dharma of Neighbors

4. Ganesha Chaturthi and the Boundaries of Dharma

5. Dharma and Discomfort During Navaratri

6. New Neighborhood, New Dharma

Conclusion: Drawing on Dharma to Expand Our Research and Teaching

Epilogue

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Ortegren, Jennifer D. Middle-Class Dharma

ISBN:

0-19-753081-8

0-19-753080-X

9780197530825

OCLC:

1375297340