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Guests at God's Wedding - Celebrating Kartik among the Women of Benares (Hardcover, New)
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Guests at God's Wedding - Celebrating Kartik among the Women of Benares (Hardcover, New)
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This fascinating look at the sacred Hindu month of Kartik
(October-November) as it is celebrated in the city of Benares in
North India highlights Kartik-related practices, stories, songs,
and experiences particular to women. During Kartik, Hindu women
living in and around Benares meet daily to enact a form of ritual
worship, or pB; jā, in which they raise the playful Hindu deity
Krishna from childhood to adulthood throughout the month,
ultimately marrying him to the plant-goddess Tulsi (Basil) Tracy
Pintchman explores how women who perform Kartik pB; jā understand
and celebrate both Kartik and Krishna in ways that are linked to
the desires, hopes, fears, and social realities characteristic of
many Hindu women living in the rather conservative social milieu of
this region.
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