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Because It Gives Me Peace of Mind: Ritual Fasts in the Religious Lives of Hindu Women

Because It Gives Me Peace of Mind: Ritual Fasts in the Religious Lives of Hindu Women

Pearson, Anne MacKenzie

Paperback

Series: Suny Series, McGill Studies in the History of Religions, a S

Hinduism

ISBN10: 0791430383
ISBN13: 9780791430385
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 11 1996
Pages: 351
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.84 Depth: 8.93
Language: English

Explores the history and nature of vrats (ritual fasts) in text and practice, and the roles these rites play in the lives of Hindu women in North India.

This is the first book-length study that explores the history and nature of vrats-votive fasting rites-the role these rites play in the religious lives of Hindu women in North India, and the meanings these women attribute to them. By placing vrats within the context of various Hindu religious categories such as concepts of time; types of religious activities; goals; notions of purity and pollution; auspiciousness and inauspiciousness, the book demonstrates how the concept of vrat provides a lens to the Hindu worldview. Accordingly, it offers insight into the nature of Hindu popular religion in general and women's religion in particular.

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