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Altares domésticos hindúes en Tijuana: un acercamiento a la recreación de la religiosidad en cuatro familias originarias de India

Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2022
The purpose of this article is to study the adaptations and representations from which four immigrant families, from different regions in India and settled in Tijuana (Mexico), recreate their religious practice.
Lucero Jazmín López Olivares, Olga Odgers Ortiz   +1 more
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‘I Believe in Something; I Don’t Know What It Is’: An Exploration of Five British Hindus’ Worldviews Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Secularism and Nonreligion, 2022
Previous research has suggested individuals can draw on resources from a diverse range of existential cultures when constructing their personal worldviews.
James Murphy, Fergal W. Jones, Dennis Nigbur   +2 more
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The Guru of Abuse: Analysing Cultural Distortions in Anuradha Roy’s Sleeping on Jupiter

Nalans, 2023
This research paper delves into the intricate relationship between culture as a tool of oppression and liberation, focusing on the experiences of child abuse within the context of Anuradha Roy’s Sleeping on Jupiter (2015).
Dhruvee Sinha, Zeeshan Ali
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Tales of Endings and Beginnings: Cycles of Violence as a Leitmotif in the Narrative Structure of the Bhadrakāḷīmāhātmya

Religions, 2020
The asura’s demise at the hands of the goddess is a theme frequently revisited in Hindu myth. It is the chronicle of a death foretold. So too is the Bhadrakāḷīmāhātmya, a sixteenth century regional purāṇa from Kerala, that narrates the tale of ...
Noor van Brussel
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Dieux monstres de l’Inde : La négation de l’art dans le discours des voyageurs français aux Indes orientales (xviie siècle) ?

Viatica, 2015
In the 17th century, the theme of monster gods is recurrent in accounts of French travel to the East Indies. Faced with translating iconography of Indian reality, which was foreign to outsiders, artists of the Middle Ages and of the Renaissance ...
Devika Vijayan
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Hinduism and the Genealogy of Culture: Sovereignty, Religion, and Authority in India

ReOrient
The article is an attempt to unpack the famous “Hindutva verdict” of 1995, by specifically paying attention to the construction of culture and its relationship with Hinduism in India.
Muhammed Shah Shajahan
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Cultural Identity Transformation of Gaudiya Vaishnavas in Russia

Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2020
This study of Gaudiya Vaishnavism in Russia focuses on the transformation of its former followers’ worldviews. Major attention is paid to the ways and trends of these changes and, in particular, to the extent of their resilience in Russian cultural ...
T. V. Yasnaya
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“Ancestors We Didn’t Even Know We Had”: Alice Walker, Asian Religion, and Ethnic Authenticity

Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2015
Recent debates about the ethics of identity in a global age have dealt with how to prioritize conflicting local and global allegiances. Guided by these concerns, the fiction of Alice Walker develops a distinctive view of how local cultures and global ...
Kyle Garton-Gundling
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Hinduism in the Socio-Political Life of India

Международная аналитика, 2021
The article analyzes the importance of the religious factor in determining the ways of socio-political development of India. India remains a country with a multi-confessional population with a clear predominance of adherents of Hinduism.
T. L. Shaumyan
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Akhil Sharma Against Mysticism: the Unconscious Body

Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies, 2018
This article deals with Akhil Sharma’s latest work, Family Life (2014), where Birju’s dead body, after a pool accident, shows the possibility of living after mental death.
Edgar Tello
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