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Given to the Goddess

Paperback • 2014 • English

Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion

By Lucinda Ramberg

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Who and what are marriage and sex for? Whose practices and which ways of talking to god can count as religion? Lucinda Ramberg considers these questions based upon two years of ethnographic research on an ongoing South Indian practice of dedication in which girls, and sometimes boys, are married to a goddess. Called devadasis, or jogatis, those dedicated become female and male women who conduct the rites of the goddess outside the walls of her main temple and transact in sex outside the bounds o...Show more

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ISBN

9780822357247

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

Given to the Goddess

Format

Paperback

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