Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0195077741 ISBN 13: 9780195077742

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1994

Riassunto

This is a collection of new essays on the phenomenon of sati (or suttee), the burning of wives in India. The contributors include both American and Indian scholars, and they address basic questions about this controversial phenomenon and the moral issues it involves.

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Recensione:

This book is grea? (presents elegant and thoughtful essays on a very disturbing issue, one that my students ask me about endlessly.)

L'autore:

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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• Editore: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0195077741
• ISBN 13: 9780195077742
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 234
• Redattore: Hawley John Stratton