Given to the Goddess

Name: Given to the Goddess
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South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion

Autor: Lucinda Ramberg

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Väzba: Pevná

Vydavateľ: Duke University Press

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Who and what are marriage and sex for? Whose practices and which ways of talking to god can count as...

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Autor

Lucinda Ramberg

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydalo

2014

Stránok

296

EAN

9780822357100

ISBN

0822357100

Enbook ID

04731561

Vydavateľ

Duke University Press

Hmotnosť

526

Rozmery

152 x 229 x 20

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Who and what are marriage and sex for? Whose practices and which ways of talking to god can count as religion? Lucinda Ramberg considers these questions based on two years of ethnographic research on an ongoing South Indian practice of dedication in which girls, and sometimes boys, are married to a goddess. Called "devadasis," or "jogatis," those dedicated become female and male women who conduct the rites of the goddess outside the walls of her main temple and transact in sex outside the bounds of conjugal matrimony. Marriage to the goddess, as well as the rites that the dedication ceremony authorizes "jogatis" to perform, have long been seen as illegitimate and criminalized. Kinship with the goddess is productive for the families who dedicate their children, Ramberg argues, and yet it cannot conform to modern conceptions of gender, family, or religion. This nonconformity, she suggests, speaks to the limitations of modern categories, as well as to the possibilities of relations--between and among humans and deities--that exceed such categories.

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