Name: Sati, the Blessing and the Curse von John Stratton Hawley (Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Barnard College Director, South Asian Institute, Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Barnard College Director, South Asian Institute, Columbia University)
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Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India John Stratton Hawley (Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Barnard College Director, South Asian Institute, Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Barnard College Director, South Asian Institute, Columbia University)

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.

Sati, the Blessing and the Curse Bewertungen

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

Über John Stratton Hawley (Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Barnard College Director, South Asian Institute, Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Barnard College Director, South Asian Institute, Columbia University)

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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GOR006814427

ISBN 13

9780195077742

ISBN 10

0195077741

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Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India John Stratton Hawley (Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Barnard College Director, South Asian Institute, Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Barnard College Director, South Asian Institute, Columbia University)

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John Stratton Hawley (Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Barnard College Director, South Asian Institute, Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Barnard College Director, South Asian Institute, Columbia University)

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Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

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Broschiert

Verlag

Oxford University Press Inc

Datum

1994-11-03

Anzahl der Seiten

227

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N/A

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Sati, the Blessing and the Curse John Stratton Hawley (Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Barnard College Director, South Asian Institute, Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Barnard College Director, South Asian Institute, Columbia University)

Sati, the Blessing and the Curse John Stratton Hawley (Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Barnard College Director, South Asian Institute, Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Barnard College Director, South Asian Institute, Columbia University)

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Sati, the Blessing and the Curse Zusammenfassung

Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India John Stratton Hawley (Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Barnard College Director, South Asian Institute, Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Barnard College Director, South Asian Institute, Columbia University)

Sati, the Blessing and the Curse Bewertungen

Über John Stratton Hawley (Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Barnard College Director, South Asian Institute, Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Barnard College Director, South Asian Institute, Columbia University)

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