Author: Tracy Pintchman File Type: pdf In this book, Tracy Pintchman has assembled ten leading scholars of Hinduism to explore the complex relationship between Hindu womens rituals and their lives beyond ritual. The book focuses particularly on the relationship of womens ritual practices to domesticity, exposing and exploring the nuances, complexities, and limits of this relationship. In many cultural and historical contexts, including contemporary India, womens everyday lives tend to revolve heavily around domestic and interpersonal concerns, especially care for children, the home, husbands, and other relatives. Hence, womens religiosity also tends to emphasize the domestic realm and the relationships most central to women. But womens religious concerns certainly extend beyond domesticity. Furthermore, even the domestic religious activities that Hindu women perform may not merely replicate or affirm traditionally formulated domestic ideals but may function strategically to reconfigure, reinterpret, criticize, or even reject such ideals. This volume takes a fresh look at issues of the relationship between Hindu womens ritual practices and normative domesticity. In so doing, it emphasizes female innovation and agency in constituting and transforming both ritual and the domestic realm and calls attention to the limitations of normative domesticity as a category relevant to many forms of Hindu womens religious practice. **Review Womens Lives, Womens Rituals in the Hindu Tradition is an enticingly rich collection. The theme of womens ritual performance and its challenges to and conformity with domesticity set the stage for a range of observations and analyses. Making impressive use of this range, the volume describes from a variety of contexts how religious performances can enhance as well as curtail womens agency and autonomy. Naturally of benefit to students and scholars interested in the rituals and lives of Hindu women, the collection is also a great resource for investigating the vast and variegated nature of Hindu traditions. --Corinne Dempsey, author of The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple and Kerala Christian Sainthood Collisions of Culture an Worldview in South India. About the Author Tracy Pintchman is a professor of religious studies at Loyola University Chicago and author of The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition and Guests at Gods Wedding Celebrating Kartik among the Women of Benares.

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Author: Keith Brown File Type: pdf The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as the fields standard reference work for a generation. Now the all-new second edition matches ELLs comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics.ullThe most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its fieldllAn entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articlesllThe first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online editionllGround-breaking and International in scope and approachllAlphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencingllAvailable in print and online, priced separately. The online version will include updates as subjects developlulELL2 includes c. 7,500,000 words c. 11,000 pages c. 3,000 articles c. 1,500 figures 130 halftones and 150 colour Supplementary audio, video and text files online c. 3,500 glossary definitions c. 39,000 references Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, languagefamily, etc.) Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists)* 200 language maps in print and onlineAlso available online via ScienceDirect - featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com.ullThe first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguisticsllGround-breaking in scope - wider than any predecessorllAn invaluable resource for researchers, academics, students and professionals in the fields of linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, language acquisition, language pathology, cognitive science, sociology, the law, the media, medicine & computer science.llThe most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its fieldlulReviewAn awe-inspiring project of breath-taking scope, bringing together a distinguished list of internationally recognized editors and authors.--Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UKAn extraordinary resource, encompassing a comprehensive breadth of major topics in all aspects of language and linguistics, the perspectives of leading scholars, and regional viewpoints from around the world! It does look to be an impressive undertaking, allright. -- Alister Cumming, Professor and Head, Modern Language Centre Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada.With over 3,000 articles and 39,000 references, this volume is vital to all college-level libraries as the most comprehensive language resource of its kind. -- John Aiello, The Electric Review, May 2005.From the forewordFrom people who enjoy browsing through encyclopedias to specialists who want some basic orientation in an area near their own, readers will find ELL2 to be an outstanding source of information. -- Sarah G. Thomason, William J. Gedney Collegiate Professor of Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA ReviewAn awe-inspiring project of breath-taking scope, bringing together a distinguished list of internationally recognized editors and authors.--Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UK An extraordinary resource, encompassing a comprehensive breadth of major topics in all aspects of language and linguistics, the perspectives of leading scholars, and regional viewpoints from around the world! It does look to be an impressive undertaking, allright. -- Alister Cumming, Professor and Head, Modern Language Centre Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. With over 3,000 articles and 39,000 references, this volume is vital to all college-level libraries as the most comprehensive language resource of its kind. -- John Aiello, The Electric Review, May 2005. From the foreword From people who enjoy browsing through encyclopedias to specialists who want some basic orientation in an area near their own, readers will find ELL2 to be an outstanding source of information. -- Sarah G. Thomason, William J. Gedney Collegiate Professor of Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Author: Tony Blackshaw File Type: pdf In this provocative new book, Tony Blackshaw argues that Leisure Studies is in a quiet but deep state of crisis. The twenty-first century has brought profound change to all aspects of society, including a plurality of new leisure worlds, and traditional concepts of Leisure Studies fail to capture this richness. This book aims to re-invigorate Leisure Studies by revealing and unpacking these leisure worlds, thereby changing the way we think about leisure and the way we do Leisure Studies. Both trivial and serious in its implications, it is precisely this paradox that makes leisure such a fascinating subject of study. Re-Imagining Leisure Studiespresents a new and radical set of methodological rules for studying leisure trends and cultures in contemporary society. It discusses the critical issues that underpin recent developments in leisure theory and explores the key themes of social class, community, politics, freedom and globalization. Marking a turning point in the reception and understanding of Leisure Studies, this book is vital reading for all students and scholars with a social scientific interest in leisure.