John Stratton Hawley is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion at Barnard College, and Director of the South Asian Institute at Columbia University. He is the editor of Songs of the Saints of India (Oxford, 1988) and Fundamentalism and Gender (Oxford, 1993), as well as numerous other books on Indian religion and literature.
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"This book is great--presents elegant and thoughtful essays on a
very disturbing issue, one that my students ask me about
endlessly."--Martha Ann Selby, Southern Methodist University
"Should be required reading for all those interested in women in
world history. It expertly displays the recent controversies in a
manner that illuminates both historical and contemporary
issues."--Lynda Shaffer, Tufts University
"This book is not easy to put down: the pace of the arguments is
brisk, the historiography is solid, the hypothetical materials are
clearly argued and imaginative, and the sparks fly....Scholars of
religion will find this work easily accessible. It moves far beyond
the bounds of Indology....suberb..."--The Journal of Religion
"This volume serves to widen the perspectives on sati and to speak
to audiences of varying kinds.... a must for scholars of Hinduism,
of gender and religion, and of human rights worldwide."History of
Religions
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