Middle-Class Dharma: Women, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism

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Jennifer D. Ortegren (Assistant Professor of Religion, Assistant Professor of Religion, Middlebury College)

Middle-Class Dharma

Women, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism

Jennifer D. Ortegren (Assistant Professor of Religion, Assistant Professor of Religion, Middlebury College)

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Oxford University Press Inc
21 June 2023

Hinduism; Religious aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships; Cultural studies; Sociology; Sociology: customs & traditions

Middle-Class Dharma is a contemporary ethnography of class mobility among Hindus in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Focusing on women in Pulan, an emerging middle-class neighborhood of Udaipur, Jennifer D. Ortegren argues that upward class mobility is not just a socio-economic process, but also a religious one. Central to Hindu women's upward class mobility is negotiating dharma, the moral and ethical groundings of Hindu worlds. As women experiment with middle-class consumer and lifestyle practices, they navigate tensions around what is possible and what is appropriate--that is, what is dharmic--as middle-class Hindu women. Ortegren shows how these women strategically align emerging middle-class desires with more traditional religious obligations in ways that enable them to generate new dharmic boundaries and religious selfhoods in the middle classes. Such transitions can be as joyful as they are difficult and disorienting. Middle-Class Dharma explores how contemporary Hindu women's everyday practices reimagine and reshape Hindu traditions. By developing dharma as an analytical category and class as a dharmic category, Ortegren pushes for expanding definitions of religion in academia, both within and beyond the study of Hinduism in South Asia.

By: Jennifer D. Ortegren (Assistant Professor of Religion Assistant Professor of Religion Middlebury College)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 162mm, Width: 236mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780197530795
ISBN 10: 0197530796
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 21 June 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jennifer D. Ortegren is Assistant Professor of Religion at Middlebury College. She specializes in the ethnographic study of religions in contemporary South Asia, particularly Hinduism and Islam, with a focus on women, ritual, and class, as well as shifting relationships between Hindu and Muslim neighbors.

Reviews for Middle-Class Dharma: Women, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism

Middle-Class Dharma is a thoughtful and readable examination of class-mobility and religion in contemporary India...A must-read for anyone interested in contemporary Hinduism, class and gender in India, and the study of lived religion in general. * Choice *