South Asian Religions on Display: Religious Processions in South Asia and in the Diaspora

by Jacobsen; Knut A.

• ISBN13: 9780415437363
• ISBN10: 0415437369
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Religious procession is a significant dimension of religion in South Asia. This volume presents current research on this important phenomenon dealing with interpretations of the role of processions, the recent increase in processions and changes in the procession traditions.

Table of Contents

List of figures
A note on transliteration
Introduction: religion on display	p. 1
Processions in South Asia	p. 13
The reinvention of Tamil funeral processions	p. 15
Getting in line: the Kumbha Mela festival processions	p. 29
Mapping the management of threatening gods and social conflict: a territorial approach to processions in a South Indian village (Tamil Nadu)	p. 45
Space, sound, auspiciousness, and performance in North Indian wedding processions	p. 63
Public display, communal devotion: procession at a South Indian Catholic festival	p. 77
The Virgin and her 'relations': reflections on processions at a Catholic shrine in southern India	p. 92
'Yeh matam kayse ruk jae?' ('How could this matam ever cease?'): Muharram processions in Pakistani Punjab	p. 104
Moderating Muharram	p. 115
Muharram processions and the ethicization of hero cults in the pre-modern Deccan	p. 126
Personifying the Sikh scripture: ritual processions of the Guru Granth Sahib in India	p. 140
Processions in the South Asian diaspora	p. 157
Gods on the move: Hindu chariot processions in Singapore	p. 159
Parading Hindu gods in public: new festival traditions of Tamil Hindus in Germany	p. 178
Processions, public space and sacred space in the South Asian diasporas in Norway	p. 191
Rathayatra of the Hare Krishnas in Durban: inventing strategies to transmit religious ideas in modern society	p. 205
Conclusion and future prospects	p. 217
Index	p. 220
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