Women in Ochre Robes

Women in Ochre RobesFocuses on the lives of female Hindu ascetics and the significance of gender to the tradition of renunciation. Meena Khandelwal offers an engaging and intimate portrait of extraordinary Hindu women in India who wear "ochre robes," signifying their renunciation of marriage and family for lives of celibacy, asceticism, and spiritual discipline. While the largely male Hindu ascetic tradition of sannyasa renders its initiates ritually "dead" to their

Betrayal is taken from Levinas as exposition-exposure and expression-reworked in relation to Derrida as performativity and responsibility

critical medications

Examines Italy’s police in the context of fascism’s efforts to modernise and establish ideological control over the state

The Grey Fairy Book ushered in a new collection of timeless stories from diverse authors with large followings across the globe

The book predicts that

West's "prophetic pragmatism" is examined

A wide-ranging consideration of the emerging field of contemplative education

"When I look back at my incredibly lucky career as a writer

The chapter concludes by addressing the policy takeaways and research gaps still present

this novel provides a fresh and fitting end to the series

Ātmatattvaviveka (Discerning the Nature of the Self

Explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors