Guests at God's wedding : celebrating Kartik among the women of Benares /

Tracy Pintchman explores how women who perform Kartik puja understand and celebrate both Kartik and Krishna in ways that are linked to the desires, hopes, fears, and social realities characteristic of many Hindu women living in the rather conservative social milieu of this region."--Jacket.

Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter: Pintchman, Tracy
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2005.
Online adgang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252922
Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Kartik as a sacred month: the Kartik Vrat in text and context
  • Kartik's religious celebrations and the churning of the ocean of milk
  • Adoring Krishna at the river's edge: the practice of Kartik Pūjā
  • Krishna, Kartik, and Hindu women's lives
  • Kartik Pūjā traditions and women's empowerment.