"Nature is our true friend": the environmental empathy of a modern female guru in North India

This article describes and analyzes the rhetorical performances (dharm-kathās) of a modern female Hindu renouncer (sādhu), who is affectionately called Guru Ma, in order to spotlight a cultural phenomenon which is characterized as "experimental Hinduism", and which is evident in Guru Ma�...

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Main Author: DeNaploi, Antoinette (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Univ. 2016
In: Nidān
Year: 2016, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 32-68
Further subjects:B Renunciation
B Ethics
B Modernization
B Environmentalism
B Modernity
B Sadhus
B Hinduism
B Performance
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