Sati, the Blessing and the Curse
The Burning of Wives in India
Several years ago in Rajasthan, an eighteen-year-old woman was burned on her husband's funeral pyre and thus became sati. Before ascending the pyre, she was expected to deliver both blessings and curses: blessings to guard her family and clan for many generations, and curses to prevent anyone from thwarting her desire to die. Sati also means blessing and curse in a broader sense. To those who revere it, sati symbolizes ultimate loyalty and self-sacrifice. It often figures near the core of a Hindu identity that feels embattled in a modern world. Yet to those who deplore it, sati is a curse, a violation of every woman's womanhood. It is murder…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-536022-6
- EAN: 9780195360226
- Produktnummer: 13944619
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 13'618 KB
- Abbildungen: 7 halftones, 1 map
Über den Autor
John Stratton Hawley is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion at Barnard College, and Director of the South Asian Institute at Columbia University. He is the editor of Songs of the Saints of India (Oxford, 1988) and Fundamentalism and Gender (Oxford, 1993), as well as numerous other books on Indian religion and literature.
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