- Hardcover: 318 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press (Mar 15 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0195099621
- ISBN-13: 978-0195099621
- Product Dimensions: 24.7 x 15.5 x 2.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 694 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"Orr's account is balanced: she does not hesitate to point out where temple women's status is distinctive, wehre it overlaps with royal women and temple men, where the status of temple women seems to be high, and where it seems to be low. Her nuanced treatment is very successful in proving that women had a recognized and ongoing presence in the temple culture that defined the medieval period."--The Journal of Religion
"This work operates at the highest levels of scholarship and regularly yields gems of insight on the problems of South Indian historiography. . . . The true value of this book lies not in historicism or comparison but in its portrait of women's agency within a 'broader context of relationships' (35) during their own time."--Journal of the American Academy of Religion
"This work operates at the highest levels of scholarship and regularly yields gems of insight on the problems of South Indian historiography. . . . The true value of this book lies not in historicism or comparison but in its portrait of women's agency within a 'broader context of relationships' (35) during their own time."--Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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Through the use of epigraphical evidence, Leslie C. Orr brings into focus the activities and identities of the temple women (devadasis) of medieval South India. This book shows how temple women's initiative and economic autonomy involved them in medieval temple politics and allowed them to establish themselves in roles with particular social and religious meanings. This study suggests new ways of understanding the character of the temple woman and, more generally, of the roles of women in Indian religion and society.
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By Beth "Crazy, Dancing White Woman" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Donors, Devotees, and Daughters of God: Temple Women in Medieval Tamilnadu (Hardcover)
This is a truly fabulous book about the possible history of temple women during the Chola period in South Indian. Ms. Orr has very thoroughly and comprehensivly examined and explained her sources and theories. I learned a great deal from this text and was gratified to see all of her assertions backed by epigraphical surveys or the well-documented work of other authors. My one critique would be that the work limits itself to only epigraphical evidence, and does not consider other sources, such as literature, before it draws firm conclusions. I don't think it a failing of the text so much as a gaping hole waiting to be filled.
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Great Resource!,
By Beth "Crazy, Dancing White Woman" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Donors, Devotees, and Daughters of God: Temple Women in Medieval Tamilnadu (Hardcover)
This is a truly fabulous book about the possible history of temple women during the Chola period in South Indian. Ms. Orr has very thoroughly and comprehensivly examined and explained her sources and theories. I learned a great deal from this text and was gratified to see all of her assertions backed by epigraphical surveys or the well-documented work of other authors. My one critique would be that the work limits itself to only epigraphical evidence, and does not consider other sources, such as literature, before it draws firm conclusions. I don't think it a failing of the text so much as a gaping hole waiting to be filled.
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