Name: Sati, the Blessing and the Curse By 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 by 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.

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

About 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

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9780195077742

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0195077741

Title

Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India by 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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Used - Very Good

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Paperback

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Year published

1994-11-03

Number of pages

227

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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 by 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 Summary

Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India by 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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About 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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