Saintly investments: Pilgrimage development and contemporary Hinduism in India
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Carter Hawthorne Higgins
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Cornell University
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2016
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
382
یادداشتهای مربوط به نشر، بخش و غیره
متن يادداشت
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-31942-2
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
نظم درجات
Asian Literature, Religion and Culture
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
Cornell University
امتياز متن
2016
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
This dissertation studies recent religious, infrastructural, financial, and legal alterations to pilgrimage development in north India by focusing on the aesthetics and social effects of knowledge: specifically, that of bureaucrats, priests, and pilgrim trusts. In Gogameri, Rajasthan, pilgrims worship at the tomb of Gogaji (a deified warrior king with Hindu and Muslim genealogical ties), presided over by litigious Muslim, Brahman, and government priests; and at Gorakhtila, a politically influential temple of Gogaji's divine guru, the ascetic Gorakhnath, in the charge of monks from the Nath Sampraday. With the Gogameri pilgrimage's increased popularity since the 1980s, Gogaji's tomb and Gorakhtila have become sites for three broad "faith-based" development (sevā-vikās) initiatives: in the pilgrimage economy and infrastructure, religious education, and secular vs. nationalist ethics. I illustrate how state and private investment in pilgrimage development responds to and encourages expert interest in devotional historiography and aesthetic and administrative aspects of ritual practice, and then track the consequences of this investment and interest for pilgrims by studying the development projects of "religious and charitable trusts" led by Gogameri pilgrims in urban north India. In a period represented by rises in Hindu nationalism, caste antagonism, and neoliberal reforms, I observe that the Gogameri pilgrimage not only brings together unaffiliated and sometimes-competing groups of people, making for a diverse aesthetics of worship and religious affiliation at a single site; it also instigates public and official debate about the values, on the one hand, of state secularism in Gogameri-related bureaucracy and litigation, and, on the other hand, of government programs and support for pilgrimage development in Gogameri.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Religion; Cultural anthropology; South African Studies
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اصطلاح موضوعی
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Development;Gogaji/zahir pir;Hindu right;Hinduism;Pilgrimage;Religious and charitable trusts
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