Mary Whitney Kelting
Biographic Data
| ID | 9317815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Whitney Kelting |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Whitney |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelting |
| SIGNATURE | KELTING M W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Heroic Wives Rituals, Stories and the Virtues of Jain Wifehood
Being a good Jain woman involves negotiating between the mutually exclusive ideologies found in the South Asian discourse of devoted wifehood and in the Jain discourse of renunciation. This book draws from a diverse collection of oral tellings, popular tracts, songs, verse narratives, fasting rituals, religious dramas, and large‐scale worship to provide new perspectives on the inherent tension between these ideologies and the space that tension c…
Singing to the Jinas
This book draws upon 14 months of field research centered on devotional singing and Svetambar Jain laywomen's religiosity in Pune, Maharashtra. These women balance their lives between received ideals of womanhood (Jain, Gujarati, Indian, middle‐class) and their own personal understandings of what it means to be a good Jain. This book argues that the Jain laywomen's theologies are developed in the practice and performance of Jain hymn singing. The…
Singing to the Jinas
This book draws upon 14 months of field research centered on devotional singing and Svetambar Jain laywomen's religiosity in Pune, Maharashtra. These women balance their lives between received ideals of womanhood (Jain, Gujarati, Indian, middle‐class) and their own personal understandings of what it means to be a good Jain. This book argues that the Jain laywomen's theologies are developed in the practice and performance of Jain hymn singing. The…
Heroic Wives Rituals, Stories and the Virtues of Jain Wifehood
Being a good Jain woman involves negotiating between the mutually exclusive ideologies found in the South Asian discourse of devoted wifehood and in the Jain discourse of renunciation. This book draws from a diverse collection of oral tellings, popular tracts, songs, verse narratives, fasting rituals, religious dramas, and large‐scale worship to provide new perspectives on the inherent tension between these ideologies and the space that tension c…
Singing to the Jinas
This book draws upon 14 months of field research centered on devotional singing and Svetambar Jain laywomen's religiosity in Pune, Maharashtra. These women balance their lives between received ideals of womanhood (Jain, Gujarati, Indian, middle‐class) and their own personal understandings of what it means to be a good Jain. This book argues that the Jain laywomen's theologies are developed in the practice and performance of Jain hymn singing. The…
Heroic Wives Rituals, Stories and the Virtues of Jain Wifehood
Being a good Jain woman involves negotiating between the mutually exclusive ideologies found in the South Asian discourse of devoted wifehood and in the Jain discourse of renunciation. This book draws from a diverse collection of oral tellings, popular tracts, songs, verse narratives, fasting rituals, religious dramas, and large‐scale worship to provide new perspectives on the inherent tension between these ideologies and the space that tension c…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (2 works) · Jainism (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Religious studies (2 works) · Religious Studies (2 works)