Transgressive subversions? Female religious leaders in Hinduism
As the eminent (female) anthropologist Mary Douglas (1966) pointed out, the "social body" constrains and contrives the way the physical body is perceived and obligated into performance. The physical experience ofthe body is in turn often modified by a clutch of regulatory and panoptic reli...
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| Language: | English |
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Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa
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| Series: | Journal for the Study of Religion |
| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1011-76012013000100004&lng=en&tlng=en |