"My bhakti is my power": Gender, Power, and the Performance of Devotional Asceticism in Rajasthan
Date: Thursday, February 18, 2010
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: 1117 UCC
Presenter: Antoinette DeNapoli, Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Religions, Grinnell College
See attached poster
Based on ethnographic research that brings together perspectives from
religious studies, gender studies, and performance studies, DeNapoli's work examines how female Shaiva initiates create a gendered, vernacular tradition of devotional asceticism that reconfigures orthodox, Brahmanical, and male-oriented concepts and practices. She will illustrate this with slides from her recent fieldwork.
