Pilgrimage Space, Hinduization of Space, Hindutva Politics of Space, and the Case of Ayodhyā as a Religious and Religiopolitical Hotspot
In this article I analyze aspects of religious geography in the mobilization by Hindu nationalists in India in the 1980s and 1990s and how Hindu nationalism and Hindu religious geography were merged in the case of the Ayodhyā conflict. Ayodhyā was consciously changed from a pilgrimage center (tīrtha...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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2023
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Год: 2023, Том: 70, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 95-112 |
| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
Ayodhya
/ Паломничество (мотив)
/ Hotspot
/ Hindutva
/ Религиозная политика
/ География религии
/ История (мотив) 1983-1992
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| Индексация IxTheo: | AD Социология религии AF География религии AX Межрелигиозные отношения BJ Ислам BK Индуизм KBM Азия KCD Агиография TK Новейшее время |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Hindu pilgrimage
B Hindu Nationalism B religious geography B Ayodhyā B religious hotspot |
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| Итог: | In this article I analyze aspects of religious geography in the mobilization by Hindu nationalists in India in the 1980s and 1990s and how Hindu nationalism and Hindu religious geography were merged in the case of the Ayodhyā conflict. Ayodhyā was consciously changed from a pilgrimage center (tīrtha) of diminishing religious importance into a religiopolitical hotspot by political forces. The potential for a Hindu–Muslim conflict and for mobilizing support for their vision of a Hinduized India was probably what made the place attractive for Hindu nationalists. The article argues that Hindu nationalism exploited the views of territoriality of traditions of pilgrimage and salvific space and merged these with their political nationalist agenda, and that it was this blending of views of space from the pilgrimage traditions, ideas of national territory, and Hindu nationalists’ ideas of a homogeneous Hindu nation with aggressive political agitation that turned Ayodhyā into a religiopolitical hotspot. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5276 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341677 |