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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Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2023-06-01
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Series: | Religions |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/6/786 |