When The Hindu-Goddess Moves To Denmark
The Establishment Of A Sakta-Tradition
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v41i3.29Keywords:
collective memory, religious adaption, goddess worship, Hinduism in DiasporaAbstract
This article will focus primarily on how the adaption-process into a Danish environment has provided a local ??kta-cult from Sri Lanka with a special narrative, and with symbols and text that it, most likely, would not have had if it were still in Sri Lanka. This is important with regards to understanding religion as a dynamic phenomenon, but also in relation to understanding how a tradition not only survives in a new setting but also expands in new environments.
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Baumann, Martin & Kurt Salentin (2006) ‘Migrant Religiousnessand Social Incorporation: Tamil Hindus from Sri Lanka in Germany’, in Journal of Contemporary Religion 21 (3): 297-323.
Bose, Mandakranta (2010) Women in the Hindu Tradition. Rules, roles and exceptions. Routledge, Hindu Studies Series, Oxford and New York Bowen, Paul (ed.) (1998) Themes and Issues in Hinduism, Cassell, London and Washington, 1998
Brockington, J.L.(1981) The Sacred Thread. Hinduism in its Continuity and Diversity, University Press Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Börresen, Kari Elisabeth (1995) ‘Women´s Studies of the Christian Tradition’, in Ursula King (ed) Religion and Gender, Blackwell, Oxford and Cambridge USA
Campbell, Colin (2007) The Easternization of the West. A Thematic Account of Cultural Change in the Modern Era, Paradigm Publishers, Boulder and London
Coburn, Thomas B. (1984) Dev?-m?h?tmya: The Crystallization of the Goddess Tradition, Delhi,
Coburn, Thomas B. (1991) Encountering the Goddess: A Translation of the Dev?-m?h?tmya and a Study of its Interpretation, Albany, New York
Connerton, Paul (1989) How societies remember, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Das Gupta, Manisha (1995) ‘What is Indian About you? A Gendered Transnational Approach to Ethnicity’, in Gender and Society 11, 572-96.
Dempsey, Corinne G. (2006) The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York. Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple, Oxford: Oxford UP.
Doniger, Wendy (2009) The Hindus. An Alternative History, The Penguin Press, New York
Durkheim, Émile (1995) The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, New York, The Free Press
Fibiger, Marianne Qvortrup (2003) ’Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus in Denmark. Internal and External Cultural and Religious Representations’, in Martin Baumann, Brigitte Luchesi & Annette Wilke (eds) Tempel und Tamilen in zweiter Heimat. Hindus aus Sri Lanka im deutschprachigen und skandinavischen Raum, Würzbburg: Ergon Verlag, 345-62
Fibiger, Marianne Qvortrup (2004): Den hinduistiske institutionalisering af den kvindelige sakti- Energi in Schjødt, J.P. , Geertz, A.W. ; Jensen, H.J.L. (eds): Det brede og det skarpe: Religionsvidenskabelige Studier. København: Anis, 95-108.
Fibiger, Marianne Qvortrup (2007) ‘Hinduisme i Danmark – demografiske overvejelser om hinduer og hinduinspirerede strømninger’, in Margit Warburg & Brian Jacobsen (eds) Tørre tal om troen, Højbjerg: Forlaget Univers, 185-97.
Fibiger, Marianne Qvortrup (2011) ‘Young Tamil Hindus in Denmark and Their Relationship to Tradition and Collective Memory’, in The Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration, 2011 (e-journal)
Fibiger, Marianne Qvortrup (2012) ‘Wilderness as a necessary feature in Hindu religion’, in Laura Feldt (ed.) Wilderness in Mythology and Religion. New approaches to the Study of Religious Spatialities, Cosmologies, and ideas of Wild Nature, Gruyter Verlag.
Flood, Gavin (1996) An introduction to Hinduism, Cambridge University press, Cambridge
Geaves, Ron (2007) Saivism in the Diaspora: Contemporary Forms of Skanda Worship, London: Equinox.
Halbwachs, Maurice (1952) Les Cadres sociaux de la mémoire, Paris: PUF.
Hervieu-Léger, Danièle (2000) Religion as a Chain of Memory, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Jacobsen, Knut A. & Pratap P. Kumar (2004) ‘Introduction’ in Knut A. Jacobsen & Pratap P. Kumar (ed.) South Asians in the Diaspora. Histories and Religious Traditions, Leiden: Brill, ix-xxiv.
Jacobsen, Knut A. (2004) ‘Establishing Ritual Space in the Hindu Diaspora in Norway’, in Knut A. Jacobsen & Pratap P. Kumar (ed.) South Asians in the Diaspora. Histories and Religious Traditions, Leiden: Brill, 134-48.
Jacobsen, Knut A. (2007) Hyllest til Gudinnen. Visjon og tilbedelse av hinduismens store Gudinne, Emilia forlag, Oslo
Kingsley, David (1986) Hindu Goddesses. Visions of the Devine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition,Motilal Barnarsidass, Delhi
Leslie, Julia (1991) ed.: Roles and Rituals for Hindu Women, Pinter, London
McGuire, Meredith (2002) Religion. The Social Context, Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press Inc.
Menon, Usha (2002) Making ?akti: Controlling (Natural) Impurity for Female (Cultural) Power, Ethos 30, 1/2, American Anthropological Association, 140-157.
Michaels, Axel (1998) Der Hinduismus. Geschichte und Gegenwart, Verlag C. H. Beck, München,
O´Flaherty, Wendy Doniger (1980) Women, Androgynes and Other Mythical Beasts, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London
Rose, H. A. (1986) Hindu Gods and Goddesses, Amar Prakashan, Delhi
Samuel, Geoffrey (2008) The Origins of Yoga and Tantra. Indic Religions to the Thirteen Century, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
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2012-10-09
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Fibiger, M. (2012). When The Hindu-Goddess Moves To Denmark: The Establishment Of A Sakta-Tradition. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 41(3), 29-36. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v41i3.29
