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Veiled Gurus - A Hindu Mother's Experiential Involvement in Religious Knowledge Transmission (Paperback)
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Veiled Gurus - A Hindu Mother's Experiential Involvement in Religious Knowledge Transmission (Paperback)
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This work examines the social reality of a Hindu woman's
involvement in the transmission of religious knowledge. The
two-year ethnographic study traces the steps of Dalit women in an
urban village in New Delhi, India, in which Dr. Yim explores the
mother's role in life cycle rituals, festivals, vrats (ritual
fasts), and daily life. In this study, Yim attempts to bridge the
gap between the word of religious texts and the reality of the
women's lives. Despite the tradition of religious texts to overlook
the role of women as teachers, this study found that women are the
primary agents of religious knowledge transmission. The Dalit women
in this study convey their erudition through informal education,
such as observation; worship; imitation; and family
responsibilities. The implications of this study are not only to
validate informal education as an effective means of teaching, but
to confirm the central role Hindu women have in the transmission of
religious knowledge to their children.
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