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Female ascetics in Hinduism
- Title
- Female ascetics in Hinduism / Lynn Teskey Denton ; [edited by Steven Collins].
- Author
- Denton, Lynn Teskey, 1949-1995.
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Collins, Steven, 1951-
- Description
- ix, 218 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- SUNY series in Hindu studies
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-207) and index.
- Contents
- The religious life of woman-as-householder -- The woman who is not a householder: widowhood, unmarriageability, and female asceticism -- Unity and diversity I: basic terminology -- Unity and diversity II: sectarian affiliation, spiritual path and ascetic mode -- Socioreligious aspects of female asceticism in Varanasi -- Sainthod, society and transcendence: legends and the poetry of women saints.
- Call Number
- *OLY 04-8788
- ISBN
- 0791461793 (alk. paper)
- 0791461807 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004045335
- OCLC
- 54686112
- Author
- Denton, Lynn Teskey, 1949-1995.
- Title
- Female ascetics in Hinduism / Lynn Teskey Denton ; [edited by Steven Collins].
- Imprint
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.
- Series
- SUNY series in Hindu studies
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-207) and index.
- Added Author
- Collins, Steven, 1951-
- Research Call Number
- *OLY 04-8788