Religion In Nepal

Author : David N. Gellner,Sondra L. Hausner,Chiara Letizia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190993436

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Religion, Secularism, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal by David N. Gellner,Sondra L. Hausner,Chiara Letizia Pdf

The socio-political landscape of Nepal has been rocked by dramatic and far-reaching changes in the past thirty years. Following a ten-year Maoist revolution and civil war, the country has transitioned from a monarchy to a republic. The former Hindu kingdom has declared its commitment to secularism, without coming to any agreement on what secularism means or should mean in the Nepalese context. What happens to religion under conditions of such rapid social and political change? How do the changes in public festivals reflect and/or create new group identities? Is the gap between the urban and the rural narrowing? How is the state dealing with Nepal’s multicultural and multi-religious society? How are Nepalis understanding, resisting, and adapting ideas of secularism? In order to answer these important questions, this volume brings together eleven case studies by an international team of anthropologists and ethno-Indologists of Nepal on such diverse topics as secularism, individualism, shamanism, animal sacrifice, the role of state functionaries in festivals, clashes and synergies between Maoism and Buddhism, and conversion to Christianity. In an Afterword, renowned political theorist Rajeev Bhargava presents a comparative analysis of Nepal’s experiences and asks whether the country is finding its own solution to the conundrum of secularism.

Author : K. R. van Kooij
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004058273

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Religion in Nepal by K. R. van Kooij Pdf

Author : Mollica Dastider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015038154988

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Religious Minorities in Nepal by Mollica Dastider Pdf

This Book Looks At The Condition Of The Religious Minorities (Muslims, Buddhists) In Nepal In Detail.

Author : Trilok Chandra Majupuria,Rohit Kumar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015062039618

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Religions in Nepal by Trilok Chandra Majupuria,Rohit Kumar Pdf

(Animism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana, Tantrism, Mantrayana, Bon, Lamaism, Jhankrism, Jainism, Sikhism, Islam and Christianity)--T.p.

Author : Megan Adamson Sijapati
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136701337

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Islamic Revival in Nepal by Megan Adamson Sijapati Pdf

This book draws on extensive fieldwork among Muslims in Nepal to examine the local and global factors that shape contemporary Muslim identity and the emerging Islamic revival movement based in the Kathmandu valley. Nepal's Muslims are active participants in the larger global movement of Sunni revival as well as in Nepal's own local politics of representation. The book traces how these two worlds are lived and brought together in the context of Nepal's transition to secularism, and explores Muslim struggles for self-definition and belonging against a backdrop of historical marginalization and an unprecedented episode of anti-Muslim violence in 2004. Through the voices and experiences of Muslims themselves, the book examines Nepal’s most influential Islamic organizations for what they reveal about contemporary movements of revival among religious minorities on the margins--both geographic and social--of the so-called Islamic world. It reveals that Islamic revival is both a complex response to the challenges faced by modern minority communities in this historically Hindu kingdom and a movement to cultivate new modes of thought and piety among Nepal’s Muslims.

Author : David N. Gellner,Sondra L. Hausner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199093373

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Global Nepalis by David N. Gellner,Sondra L. Hausner Pdf

Migration has been a basic fact of Nepali life for centuries. Over the last thirty years, migration from Nepal has increased diaspora communities across the world. In these diverse contexts, to what extent do Nepalis reproduce their culture and pass it on to subsequent generations? How much of diaspora life is a response to social and political concerns derived from the homeland? What aspects of Nepali life and culture change? In this volume twenty-one authors address these issues through eighteen detailed case studies that tackle issues of livelihood, identity and belonging, internal conflict, and religious practice, in the UK, the USA, India, Southeast Asia, the Gulf countries, and Fiji. Throughout the volume, we see how being Nepali outside Nepal enables new categories and new kinds of identity to emerge, whether as Nepali, Gorkhali, or as a member of a particular ethnic, regional, or religious group. The common theme of Global Nepalis is the exploration of continuity, change, and conflict as new practices and identities develop in Nepali diaspora life.exponentially, leading to many new

Author : G. Grieve
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230601475

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Retheorizing Religion in Nepal by G. Grieve Pdf

Retheorizing Religion in Nepal is an engaging and thought-provoking study of Religion in South Asia, with important insights for the study of religion and culture more broadly conceived. Grieve uses ethnographic material as well as poststructuralist and postcolonialist approaches to critique and expand religious studies as a discipline.

Author : Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190844554

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Reciting the Goddess by Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz Pdf

Reciting the Goddess presents the first critical study of the Svasthanivratakatha (SVK), a sixteenth-century Hindu narrative textual tradition. The extensive SVK manuscript tradition offers a rare opportunity to observe the making of a specific, distinct Hindu religious tradition. Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz argues that the SVK serves as a lens through which we can observe the creation of modern 'Hinduism' in the Himalayas, as the text both mirrored and informed key moments in the self-conscious creation of Nepal as the 'world's only Hindu kingdom' in the late medieval and early modern period. Birkenholtz mines the literary historiography that is contained within the SVK text itself, chronicling the text's literary and narrative development as well as the development of the Svasthani goddess tradition. She outlines the process whereby the SVK gradually transformed into a Purana text, and became a critical source for Nepali Hindu belief and identity. She also examines the elusive character of the goddess Svasthani whose identity is tied to the pan-Hindu goddess tradition, and the representation of women in the SVK and the ways in which the text influenced local and regional debates on the ideal of Hindu womanhood. Reciting the Goddess presents Nepal's celebrated SVK as a micro-level illustration of the powerful ways in which people, place, and literature intersect to produce new ideas and concepts of identity and place, even in a historically non-literate culture.

Author : Matthew Martin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004439023

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Tantra, Ritual Performance, and Politics in Nepal and Kerala by Matthew Martin Pdf

For the first time, Tantra, Ritual Performance and Politics in Nepal and Kerala offers a comparative approach to Tantric mediumship as observed in two locales: Navadurgā rituals in Bhaktapur, Nepal, and Teyyāṭṭam in North Kerala.

Author : Davide Torri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367646064

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Landscape, Ritual and Identity Among the Hyolmo of Nepal by Davide Torri Pdf

This book analyses the social, political and religious life of the Hyolmo people of Nepal. Highlighting patterns of change and adaptation, it addresses the Shamanic-Buddhist interface that exists in the animated landscape of the Himalayas. Opening with an analysis of the ethnic revival of Nepal, the book first considers the Himalayan religious landscape and its people. Specific attention is then given to Helambu, home of the Hyolmo people, within the framework of Tibetan Buddhism. The discussion then turns to the persisting shamanic tradition of the region and the ritual dynamics of Hyolmo culture. The book concludes by considering broader questions of Hyolmo identity in the Nepalese context, as well as reflecting on the interconnection of landscape, ritual and identity. Offering a unique insight into a fascinating Himalayan culture and its formation, this book will be of great interest to scholars of indigenous peoples and religion across religious studies, Buddhist studies, cultural anthropology and South Asian studies.

Author : Trilok Chandra Majupuria
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : India
ISBN : 9993330566

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Religions in Nepal by Trilok Chandra Majupuria Pdf

Author : Jon Burbank
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0761414762

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Nepal by Jon Burbank Pdf

Describes the geography, history, government, economy, people, religion, language, and culture of Nepal, a predominantly Hindu country located north of India. Includes several recipes.

Author : Bal Gopal Shrestha
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443838252

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The Sacred Town of Sankhu by Bal Gopal Shrestha Pdf

This book presents a detailed view of Newar society and culture, and its socio-economic, socio-religious and ritual aspects, concentrating on the Newar town of Sankhu in the Valley of Nepal. The foundation of the town of Sankhu is attributed to the goddess Vajrayoginī, venerated by both Buddhists and Hindus in Nepal and beyond. Myths, history, and topographical details of the town and the sanctuary of the goddess Vajrayoginī and her cult are discussed on the basis of published sources, unpublished chronicles, and inscriptions. The book deals with the relation between Hinduism and Buddhism, with the interrelations between the Newar castes (jāt), caste-bound associations (sī guthi), and above all with the numerous socio-religious associations (guthi) that uphold ritual life of the Newars. All major and minor Newar feasts, festivals, dances, fasts and processions of gods and goddesses are discussed.

Author : G. Grieve
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1403974349

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Retheorizing Religion in Nepal by G. Grieve Pdf

Retheorizing Religion in Nepal is an engaging and thought-provoking study of Religion in South Asia, with important insights for the study of religion and culture more broadly conceived. Grieve uses ethnographic material as well as poststructuralist and postcolonialist approaches to critique and expand religious studies as a discipline.

Author : Todd T. Lewis
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791492437

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Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal by Todd T. Lewis Pdf

This book demonstrates how popular ritual texts and story narratives have shaped the religious life and culture of the only surviving South Asian Mahayana Buddhist society, the Newars of Kathmandu. It begins with an account of the Newar Buddhist community's history and its place within the religious environment of Nepal and proceeds to build around five popular translations, several of which were known across Asia: the Srngabheri Avadana, the Simhalasarthabahu Avadana, the Tara, the Mahakala Vratas, and the Pancaraksa. Lewis documents how the respective texts have been domesticated in Nepal's art and architecture, healing traditions, and rituals. He shows how they provide paradigmatic case studies that transcend the Nepalese context, illustrating universal practices or issues in all Buddhist communities, such as gender relations and stupa veneration, the role of merchants, ethnicity, violence, devotions to celestial bodhisattvas by kings and women, and the role of mantra recitations and healing rituals in the lives of Buddhists.