Right to Pray: The Tensions between Gender and Faith Traditions in India
Focusing on cultural restrictions on women’s access to the garbhagriha in specific Hindu temples in India, this paper attempts to contextualize the wider debates around gender in faith-based practices and the confrontation between the ‘right to pray’ movement and its opponents. It reviews the comple...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox
2020
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Religions of South Asia
Year: 2020, Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Pages: 258–284 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
India
/ Hinduism
/ Religious practice
/ Feminism
/ Temple
/ Allerheiligstes
/ Woman
/ Access
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Activism
B Rights B Faith B Gender B Pray |
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