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Graceful Women

Name: Graceful Women
Brand: University of Tennessee Press
SKU: 9781572332140
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Gender And Identity In An American Sikh Community

Autor: Constance Waeber Elsberg

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Editura: University of Tennessee Press

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A number of religious movements were born in the United States in the 1970s as refugees from the cou...

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Autor

Constance Waeber Elsberg

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2003

Pagini

352

EAN

9781572332140

ISBN

9781572332140

Enbook ID

06336328

Editura

University of Tennessee Press

Greutate

600

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 30

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A number of religious movements were born in the United States in the 1970s as refugees from the counterculture sought new ways of living. In 1969 in Los Angeles, teacher Yogi Bhajan founded the Healthy Happy Holy Organization (3HO) and dedicated it to yoga and healthy living. Many members began to convert to Sikhism, Bhajan's faith, and soon the group numbered in the thousands. Graceful Women is the first look at the women who embraced this community as they sought meaning in their lives. Constance Waeber Elsberg follows members of an ashram over an extended period of time--from affiliation, through their first attempts to apply the teachings of 3HO to everyday life, through upheavals and doubts in the community, and finally to mature formulations of their own purpose and Identity. Both long-term and former members speak about the group and the process of adopting Sikhism and participating in such cultural practices as arranged marriages. In studying this group, Elsberg found women building individual and collective identities and using symbols, narratives, and metaphors to participate in a view of the world that stresses an essential unity beneath the conflicts of contemporary life. A regimen including yoga, meditation, and diet helped the women feel that they could control their responses to everyday stress and manage difficult decisions. A central focus of the book is the Sikh Dharma ideal of the "graceful woman" and the ways in which this concept both empowers and constrains women. Women are free to choose their degree of engagement in the public sphere: some build careers, some are active in the 3HO community, some dedicated their lives to their families. Work in communitybusinesses allows many women to combine family and work lives. Curtailing this freedom of choice, however, is 3HO's teaching that women should also be gracious, undemanding, and willing to defer to those in authority. Elsberg places this movement in the context of other alternativ