Pour une géographie sociale des faits religieux. L'exemple de l'hindouisme en pays tamoul (Inde du Sud)

• Published in: Carnets de géographes no. 6
• Main Author: Trouillet, Pierre-Yves
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: French
• Published: UMR 245 - CESSMA 07.10.2013
• Subjects: Geography; Humanities and Social Sciences; Religions; Social Anthropology and ethnology; Inde; Géographie sociale; Religion; Tamil Nadu; Hinduism; Hindouisme; Social Geography; India

Based on three case studies taken in the Hindu context of the Tamil region, in South India, this article defends the idea and the legitimacy of a social geography of religious phenomena. It shows on the one hand that Hindu religious spaces (shrines and religious circulations) inform about the societ...