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"In Clothing as Devotion in Contemporary Hinduism, Urmila Mohan explores the materiality and visuality of cloth and clothing as devotional media in contemporary Hinduism. Drawing upon ethnographic research into the global missionizing group "International Society for Krishna Consciousness" (ISKCON), she studies translocal spaces of worship, service, education, and daily life in the group's headquarters in Mayapur and other parts of India. Focusing on the actions and values of deity dressmaking, devotee clothing and paraphernalia, Mohan shows how activities, such as embroidery and chanting, can be understood as techniques of spirituality, reverence, allegiance-and she proposes the new term "efficacious intimacy" to help understand these complex processes. The monograph brings theoretical advances in Anglo-European material culture and material religion studies into a conversation with South Asian anthropology, sociology, art history, and religion. Ultimately, it demonstrates how embodied interactions as well as representations shape ISKCON's practitioners as devout subjects, while connecting them with the divine and the wider community".
Clothing and dress --- Hindu embroidery. --- Hinduism and culture. --- Culture and Hinduism --- Culture --- Embroidery, Hindu --- Embroidery --- Religious aspects --- Hinduism.
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Public Hinduisms critically analyses the way in which Hinduism is produced and represented as an established feature of modern public landscapes. It examines the mediation, representation and construction of multiple forms of Hinduism in a variety of social and political contexts, and in the process establishes it as a dynamic and developing modern concept. The essays in this volume are divided into themes that address different aspects of the processes that form modern Hinduism. The book includes discussions on topics such as ecumenical initiatives, the contemporary interpretation of particul
Hinduism and culture. --- Hinduism --- Social aspects. --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- Culture and Hinduism --- Culture --- Hinduism and culture --- Hinduism - Social aspects
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"Over the last few decades, there has been a renewed intellectual energy in religious studies around material culture; however, most of the attention has been focused on the ways humans use material objects and what specific materials reflect about humans. In Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger shifts the focus from human agents to material ones, which have an effect, or cause something to happen, that may be beyond what a human creator of the material intended. Analyzing materials from three regions where she has conducted extensive fieldwork, Flueckiger begins with Indian understandings of the agency of ornaments that have the desired effects of protecting women and making them more auspicious. Subsequent chapters bring in examples of materiality that are agentive beyond human intentions, from a south Indian goddess tradition where female guising transforms the aggressive masculinity of men who wear saris, braids, and breasts, to the presence of cement images of Ravana in Chhattisgarh, which perform alternative theologies and ideologies to those of dominant textual traditions of the Ramayana epic, in which Ravana is destroyed by the god Rama. Deeply ethnographic and accessibly written, Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds expands our understanding of specific religious practices in India as well as the parameters of religion more broadly"--
Hinduism and culture --- Material culture --- Religious aspects --- Hinduism. --- Culture and Hinduism --- Culture --- India. --- Bharat --- Bhārata --- Government of India --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Inde --- Indi --- Indien --- Indii͡ --- Indland --- Indo --- Republic of India --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu
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Founded in 1997, the International Journal of Hindu Studies is committed to publishing excellent scholarship on well-established topics in Hindu Studies, to fostering new work in neglected areas, and to stimulating alternative perspectives as well as exchange of information on a wide range of issues. The Journal supports critical inquiry, hermeneutical interpretive proposals, and historical investigation into all aspects of Hindu traditions. While committed to publishing articles that will advance scholarship in any discipline relevant to Hindu Studies, the Journal is especially interested in areas of research that have cross-disciplinary relevance or new implications for this emerging field of scholarly interest. Submissions of a comparative or theoretical nature in every discipline in the humanities and social sciences will receive serious and respectful consideration. Each submission to the Journal will receive double-blind review.
Hinduism --- Hinduism and culture --- Hindouisme --- Hindouisme et culture --- Civilization. --- Hinduism. --- Hinduism and culture. --- Civilisation indienne (Inde) --- Hindouisme. --- India --- Inde --- India. --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Culture and Hinduism --- Culture --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- Barbarism --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Bharat --- Bhārata --- Government of India --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Indië --- Indien --- Indii︠a︡ --- Indland --- Republic of India --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu --- Indi --- Indii͡ --- Indo --- Hinduisme. --- Índia. --- hindoeïsme
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Le rite est volontiers abstrait de toute historicité, non seulement pour ses participants mais aussi pour nombre d’analystes qui y repèrent des archaïsmes disparus d’autres activités sociales. Sans nier la possibilité qu’existent de véritables pérennités formelles, alors même que le cadre et la fonction d’un rite changent nécessairement dans le temps, il a semblé aux auteurs de ce recueil que l’affirmation de telles continuités risquait de masquer le fait que les rites sont des élaborations sociales inscrites dans une histoire. Les études ici présentées se proposent par conséquent de restituer aux rites hindous cette double dimension sociale et historique, en insistant tout particulièrement sur leur circulation et les aménagements dont ils furent l’objet dans l’espace, la société et le temps. Les rites y sont envisagés comme objets d’imitations, d’emprunts, de modifications, de remaniements - ou de stratégies langagières, un terme prestigieux pouvant être appliqué à des rites qui, en fait, diffèrent profondément du « modèle » revendiqué. L’ouvrage comprend trois parties. « Genèses et transformations » rapporte des modifications rituelles au contexte social et/ou religieux de l’époque concernée. « Modèles du rite, rites modèles » aborde la modélisation des rites eux-mêmes, ou le recours à des rites hindous comme modèles d’autres pratiques. « Débattre des rites, débattre du passé » analyse la façon dont les participants à des rites, ou les commentateurs d’autrefois, élaborent leur relation au passé. Le rite est alors pensé dans ses modifications, témoignant d’une tension explicite entre idéalisation du passé et constat du changement.
Hinduism --- Hindouisme --- Customs and practices --- Rituals --- Coutumes et pratiques --- Rituel --- Religious ethnology --- Nepal --- Indonesia --- Malaisia --- Burma --- India --- Hinduism and culture. --- Religious life --- Rituals. --- Customs and practices. --- Social aspects. --- Hinduism. --- Religious life (Hinduism) --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- Culture and Hinduism --- Culture --- Hinduism - Rituals --- Hinduism - Customs and practices --- politique --- astrologie --- rite --- dévotion --- dieu --- texte sacré --- Rites et cérémonies --- Asie du Sud --- Rites et cérémonies
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Hinduism and culture. --- Hinduism. --- Hinduism --- Hinduism and culture --- Culture and Hinduism --- Culture --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- India --- Indland --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Republic of India --- Bhārata --- Indii︠a︡ --- Inde --- Indië --- Indien --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu --- Bharat --- Government of India --- インド --- Indo --- Religion --- هند --- Индия --- Hinduism and modernity --- Islam --- Hinduism in Europe --- Orientalism --- caste --- gender --- Kali --- gurus --- Hindu nationalism
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Instant karma !, la chanson de John Lennon résume à elle seule le tournant des années 1970 où se croisent, en Occident, protestation sociale et culturelle, renouveau religieux et fascination pour l’Orient Cette attirance n’est pas nouvelle. Mais avec la contre-culture de cette décennie, elle ne passe plus par une connaissance intellectuelle ou une inspiration artistique, mais par l’adoption de valeurs religieuses et l’expérimentation de leurs pratiques. Quarante ans après, ces mouvements religieux enracinés dans l’hindouisme subsistent encore, et une mosaïque de pratiques dites orientales se répand et alimente la société de consommation : on est entré dans l’ère du Karma Cola, selon G. Mehta, essayiste indienne qui. déjà en 1979, annonçait la globalisation et la commercialisation de I’« Orient ». La séduction que suscitent les « spiritualités orientales » s'exprime notamment par le succès de gurus indiens. Parcourant le monde pour propager leur enseignement et transplanter des ashrams, ils ont su créer des mouvements religieux planétaires. En prenant pour cas d'études le Siddha Yoga et les Centres Sivananda de Yoga Vedanta, ce livre offre une analyse inédite de la diffusion des pratiques et des valeurs se référant à l'hindouisme. Il analyse la manière dont ces mouvements religieux acquièrent une dimension transnationale, et l'accueil qui leur est fait en France et en Angleterre. Apparaissent alors les affinités entre hindouisme et renouveau du croire, à travers différentes manifestations : refus des formes extérieures du religieux, spiritualité utilitaire, intériorisation, religion « expérientielle », concordances avec la psychologie. L'engouement persistant pour ces fragments d’« Orient mystique » révèle des caractéristiques de la sensibilité religieuse contemporaine, et conduit à reconsidérer la place de la mystique dans la modernité.
Hinduism --- Hinduism and culture --- Globalization --- Religious aspects --- Hinduism. --- Hinduism - Western countries. --- Hinduism and culture - Western countries. --- Globalization - Religious aspects - Hinduism. --- Culture and Hinduism --- Culture --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- consommation --- sacré --- orient --- yoga --- Hindouisme et culture --- Hindouisme --- Convertis à l'hindouisme --- Civilisation occidentale --- Relations --- Occident --- Influence hindoue --- mysticisme --- néo-hindouisme --- globalisation --- mouvements néo-hindous --- Siddha Yoga --- les Centres Sivananda de Yoga Vedanta --- enseignement --- France --- Angleterre --- hindouisme --- individualisme --- guru et disciple --- monisme --- dogme --- rituel --- auto-prefectionnement --- intramondanéité
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In The Cow in the Elevator Tulasi Srinivas explores a wonderful world where deities jump fences and priests ride in helicopters to present a joyful, imaginative, yet critical reading of modern religious life. Drawing on nearly two decades of fieldwork with priests, residents, and devotees, and her own experience of living in the high-tech city of Bangalore, Srinivas finds moments where ritual enmeshes with global modernity to create wonder-a feeling of amazement at being overcome by the unexpected and sublime. Offering a nuanced account of how the ruptures of modernity can be made normal, enrapturing, and even comical in a city swept up in globalization's tumult, Srinivas brings the visceral richness of wonder-apparent in creative ritual in and around Hindu temples-into the anthropological gaze. Broaching provocative philosophical themes like desire, complicity, loss, time, money, technology, and the imagination, Srinivas pursues an interrogation of wonder and the adventure of writing true to its experience. The Cow in the Elevator rethinks the study of ritual while reshaping our appreciation of wonder's transformative potential for scholarship and for life.
Ritual. --- Religious life --- Hinduism and culture --- Globalization --- Hinduism. --- Religious aspects. --- Bangalore (India) --- Religious life and customs. --- Ritual --- Hinduism --- Religious aspects --- Culture and Hinduism --- Culture --- Religious life (Hinduism) --- Cult --- Cultus --- Liturgies --- Public worship --- Symbolism --- Worship --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ritualism --- Bangaluru (India) --- Bengalur (India) --- Beṅgaḷūru (India) --- Бенгалуру (India) --- Bengalooru (India) --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A75 --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Azië --- Hinduism and culture. --- Hinduismus. --- Volksreligion. --- Wunder. --- Wunderglaube. --- Bangalore. --- India
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Comment se représente-t-on le corps dans le monde hindou ? Comment y est-il pensé et décrit ? Alors même que des recherches anthropologiques sur la société indienne l’ont placé au fondement des rapports sociaux entre castes, ou à la base des conceptions sur l’impureté, le corps n’avait jusqu’ici guère été étudié en lui-même. Aussi ce livre s’attache-t-il à restituer la multiplicité et la complexité de ses représentations, depuis la période védique ancienne jusqu’à nos jours, à travers l’iconographie, les images verbales, les pratiques corporelles d’exception ou les interactions quotidiennes. Quatre principaux domaines sont abordés. Après des approches historiques et épistémologiques mettant à jour diverses logiques de description et d’utilisation référentielle du corps, celui-ci est envisagé dans sa dimension ésotérique comme microcosme, support et objet d'ensembles complexes de représentations et de pratiques, en particulier du yoga et des tantras. Puis, divers aspects de son élaboration visuelle, gestuelle et perceptive sont examinés, dans le cadre de rituels de dévotion, de chants de mariage, de macérations ascétiques ou du cinéma populaire hindi. Enfin, une dernière partie analyse en quoi le corps est un lieu d'inscription de rapports sociaux variés. Des constantes émergent, qui montrent que si toutes ces représentations coexistent et se juxtaposent, elles n’en sont pas moins hiérarchisées, comme le sont les corps eux-mêmes. L'ensemble des contributions réunies ne se limite pas aux spéculations savantes. Il s'appuie tout autant sur les traditions orales, sur les règles légales, sur l’observation contemporaine des pratiques effectives - bref, sur la diversité des faits et des paroles qui manifestent, en Inde, les multiples réalités des corps.
Hinduism and culture --- Body, Human --- Body image --- Rites and ceremonies --- Religious aspects --- Hinduism. --- Social aspects --- Mythology --- India --- Social life and customs. --- Human body --- Corps humain --- Image du corps --- Aspect social --- Image, Body --- Imagery (Psychology) --- Mind and body --- Person schemas --- Personality --- Self-perception --- Culture and Hinduism --- Culture --- Human beings --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Body, Human - Religious aspects - Hinduism. --- Body, Human - Social aspects - India. --- Body, Human - Mythology - India. --- Hinduism and culture - India. --- Body image - India. --- Rites and ceremonies - India. --- India - Social life and customs. --- philosophie --- anthropologie --- civilisation hindoue --- corps --- sociologie --- Sociologie du corps --- Civilisation hindoue --- Anthropologie --- Inde
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In 1969, young Kirin Narayan's older brother, Rahoul, announced that he was quitting school and leaving home to seek enlightenment with a guru. From boyhood, his restless creativity had continually surprised his family, but his departure shook up everyone- especially Kirin, who adored her high-spirited, charismatic brother. A touching, funny, and always affectionate memoir, My Family and Other Saints traces the reverberations of Rahoul's spiritual journey through the entire family. As their beachside Bombay home becomes a crossroads for Westerners seeking Eastern enlightenment, Kirin's sari-wearing American mother wholeheartedly embraces ashrams and gurus, adopting her son's spiritual quest as her own. Her Indian father, however, coins the term "urug"-guru spelled backward-to mock these seekers, while young Kirin, surrounded by radiant holy men, parents drifting apart, and a motley of young, often eccentric Westerners, is left to find her own answers. Deftly recreating the turbulent emotional world of her bicultural adolescence, but overlaying it with the hard-won understanding of adulthood, Narayan presents a large, rambunctious cast of quirky characters. Throughout, she brings to life not just a family but also a time when just about everyone, it seemed, was consumed by some sort of spiritual quest. "A lovely book about the author's youth in Bombay, India. . . . The family home becomes a magnet for truth-seekers, and Narayan is there to affectionately document all of it."-Body + Soul "Gods, gurus and eccentric relatives compete for primacy in Kirin Narayan's enchanting memoir of her childhood in Bombay."-William Grimes, New York Times
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