Laughter, creativity, and perseverance: female agency in Buddhism and Hinduism

Introduction: Female Agency in Buddhist and Hindu Contexts / Ute Hüsken -- Section I. Renewing Religion in Female Spaces: 1.1. Exclusion, Secrecy and the (Under)ground: Dynamics of Female Religious and Ritual Agency in Kalmykia / Valeriya Gazizova --1.2. "This is not a Home, it is a Temple&quo...

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Contributors: Hüsken, Ute 1965- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Oxford University Press [2022]
In:Year: 2022
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Series/Journal:Religion, culture, and history
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Buddhism / Hinduism / Buddhist woman / Hindu woman / Plot / Competent to act
B Bhikkuni / Hindu woman / Priestess / Competent to act
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
BL Buddhism
KBM Asia
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
Further subjects:B Buddhist women
B Women Religious aspects Hinduism
B Women Buddhist priests
B Women in Buddhism
B Hindu women
B Buddhist Nuns
B Women Religious aspects Buddhism
B Women in Hinduism
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