Given to the Goddess South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion |
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| Author:
| Ramberg, Lucinda |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8223-5724-7 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2014 |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $27.95 |
Book Description:
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Based on two years of ethnographic research, this book considers 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 of conjugal matrimony.
Based on two years of ethnographic research, this book considers 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 of conjugal matrimony.