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Real Sadhus Sing to God: Gender, Asceticism, and Vernacular Religion in Rajasthan

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Real Sadhus Sing to God: Gender, Asceticism, and Vernacular Religion in Rajasthan - Denapoli, Antoinette Elizabeth
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In this groundbreaking book, Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli examines the everyday religious worlds and lived practices of female Hindu ascetics (sadhus) in the north Indian state of Rajasthan. Real Sadhus Sing to God is the first book-length study to explore the ways that female sadhus perform and create gendered views of asceticism through their singing, storytelling, and sacred text practices .

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Real Sadhus Sing to God: Gender, Asceticism, and Vernacular Religion in Rajasthan 2014, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199940035

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