Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance
Female Agency in Buddhism and Hinduism
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 21 December 2022
- ISBN 9780197603727
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages294 pages
- Size 163x237x24 mm
- Weight 585 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 figures 272
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Short description:
Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance offers ten in-depth case studies analyzing culturally, historically, and geographically unique situations in order to explore the historical background, contemporary trajectories, and impact of the emergence of new and powerful forms of female agency in mostly conservative Hindu and Buddhist religious traditions.
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In most mainstream traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism, women have for centuries largely been excluded from positions of religious and ritual leadership. However, as this volume shows, in an increasing number of late-20th-century and early-21st-century contexts, women can and do undergo monastic and priestly education; they can receive ordination/initiation as Buddhist nuns or Hindu priestesses; and they are accepted as religious and political leaders. Even though these processes still take place largely outside or at the margins of traditional religious institutions, it is clear that women are actually establishing new religious trends and currents. They are attracting followers, and they are occupying religious positions on par with men.
At times women are filling a void left behind by male religious specialists who left the profession, and at times they are perceived as their rivals. In some cases, this process takes place in collaboration with male religious specialists, in others against the will of the women's male counterparts. However, in most cases we see both acceptance and resistance. Whether silently or with great fanfare, women are grasping new opportunities to occupy positions of leadership. This book offers ten in-depth case studies analysing culturally, historically, and geographically unique situations in order to explore the historical background, contemporary trajectories, and impact of the emergence of new and powerful forms of female agency in mostly conservative Hindu and Buddhist religious traditions.
Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance invites scholars to articulate how the technologies of exerting female agency have continued, adapted, and changed through the timeline of these traditions.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Female Agency in Buddhist and Hindu Contexts
Ute Hüsken
Section 1: 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": Creative Agency in Navarattitri Kolu
Ina Marie Lunde Ilkama
Section 2: Appropriation of Male Spaces
2.1 Body-Politics and the Gendered Politics of Hindu Militancy: Shiv Sena Women and Political Agency in Western India
Tarini Bedi
2.2 Buddhist 'Radicalism' - A Vehicle for Female Empowerment?
Melyn McKay & Iselin Frydenlund
2.3 Laughing on a Rooftop: Female Buddhist Agency as Local in Lumbini, Nepal
Amy Paris Langenberg
2.4 Right to Pray: A Comparative Analysis of Sabarimala and Sani
Shefali More
Section 3: Performing Religion Publicly
3.1 Hindu Women and the Gendering of Religious and Ritual Authority in Trinidad
Priyanka Ramlakhan
3.2 Tradition, Innovation, and Resistance? Training Girls in Sanskrit and Vedic Rituals
Ute Hüsken
3.3 "I Will be the Sankaracarya for Women!": Gender, Agency, and a Guru's Quest for Equality in Hinduism
Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli
Section 4: Research Strategies
4 Female Agency in Buddhism and Hinduism: Methodological Reflections and Collective Commitments
Caroline Starkey
