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 in | South Asia multidisciplinary academic journal Vol. 18; no. 18 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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 |
Series | Wayside Shrines: Everyday Religion in Urban India |
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Online Access | Get full text |
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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. |
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ISSN: | 1960-6060 1960-6060 |
DOI: | 10.4000/samaj.4546 |