Transnationalising the Sacred

Maheshvari Naidu

South Asian Survey, 2013, vol. 20, issue 1, 137-149

Abstract: Globalisation and post-colonialism have created new religio-cultural geographies and articulations in many countries. Many aspects of Hindu religion have been transnationally stretched and (re)enacted within new migrant and diasporic spaces, in turn reshaping and somewhat changing how ritual and religious enactments come to be enunciated. This article focuses on the yajna as a plastic and symbolic resource that is enacted in a transnational context and within new idioms and vocabularies of religious expression. The article engages with Lubin’s (2001) thesis that the ‘public’ and visible aspect of yajna functions as a civic ‘spectacle’ and probes the performance element of this so-called ‘spectacle’, and looks at how it becomes re-ritualised and re-enacted to fit the contemporary needs of transnational and diasporic Hindu communities.

Keywords: Vedic; yajna; sacrifice; transnational; Hinduism; spectacle; Durban; South Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1177/0971523114559874

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