Religious Reading and Everyday Lives
Abstract
Emilia Bachrach paints a vivid ethnographic picture of vārtā satsaṅgs in present-day Ahmadabad—meetings in which female members of the Vallabha Sampraday read and discuss sections of the Sampraday’s two central hagiographies, the Caurāsī vaiṣṇavan kī vārtā and the Do sau bhāvan vaiṣṇavan kī vārtā. Showing how these women use the stories of the saint’s lives to understand and navigate their own social and religious worlds, Bachrach argues that such religious reading practices are an active and productive process, providing a space for debate, interpretation, and exploration of sectarian identity.
Repository Citation
Bachrach, Emilia. "Religious Reading and Everyday Lives." In Texts and Traditions in Early Modern North India, edited by Tyler Williams, Anshu Malhotra, and John Stratton Hawley. Oxford Universit Press, 2018.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication Date
8-30-2018
Department
Religion
Additional Department
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Document Type
Book Chapter
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199478866.003.0021
Notes
In Part Four: Sampradāy and Beyond, Chapter 21.
Keywords
Vārtā satsaṅg, Ahmadabad, Vallabha Sampraday, Women, Hagiography, Caurāsī vaiṣṇavan kī vārtā, Do sau bhāvan vaiṣṇavan kī vārtā
ISBN
9780199478866
Language
English
Format
text
