Urban Devis: Fashioning Lay Women’s Holiness in Krishna Bhakti Networks

Although many Hindu communities today foreground women as religious authorities, some lineages officially recognize only men as gurus and renouncers. If official models of religious authority are gendered masculine, what space do women have to embody holiness? This article investigates this question...

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Main Author: Robison, Claire (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2023
In: Religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 6
Further subjects:B Women
B International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)
B Bhakti
B Guru
B vernacular holiness
B Hindus
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