Tracy Pintchman

Home institution

Loyola University

Research project

Guests at God's Wedding: Hindu Women Celebrating the Marriage of Krishna and Tulsi

This project explores how Hindu women in the sacred city of Benares conceive, experience, and celebrate the deity Krishna and the marriage of Krishna and Tulsi during the month of Karttik, a lunar Hindu month falling in mid-autumn.

Course

HDS 3415: From Ritual Vows to the Veil: Women and Religion in India: Seminar (Fall 2000)

Publications

• Guests at God's Wedding: Celebrating Kartik Among The Women of Benares