Introduction. Wayside Shrines in India: An Everyday Defiant Religiosity

Drawing on this special issue’s ethnographic data and analysis this introduction aims to offer an analytical framework for understanding the notion of wayside shrines. It does so by defining wayside shrines as sites that enshrine a worshipped object that is immediately adjacent to a public path, vis...

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Published inSouth Asia multidisciplinary academic journal Vol. 18; no. 18
Main Authors Larios, Borayin, Voix, Raphaël
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Association pour la recherche sur l'Asie du Sud (ARAS) 23.07.2018
Association pour la recherche sur l'Asie du Sud
Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud
SeriesWayside Shrines: Everyday Religion in Urban India
Subjects
defiant religiosity
everyday religion
Humanities and Social Sciences
India
popular religion
public space
Social Anthropology and ethnology
wayside shrines
popular religion
everyday religion
wayside shrines
defiant religiosity
public space
India
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Summary:Drawing on this special issue’s ethnographic data and analysis this introduction aims to offer an analytical framework for understanding the notion of wayside shrines. It does so by defining wayside shrines as sites that enshrine a worshipped object that is immediately adjacent to a public path, visible from it and accessible to any passerby. Further, we argue that wayside shrines are spaces in which we can observe a unique form of everyday religiosity that challenges sedimented discourses and practices at three different scales: at the level of the individual, of the community, and of the state.
ISSN:1960-6060
1960-6060
DOI:10.4000/samaj.4546