Fra Jagannatha til juggernaut: Billedkult og kristen mission ved den store vognprocession i Puri

The Car Festival in Puri, Odisha, is one of the world's largest religious processions. About one million pilgrims follow the three god-siblings, Jagannatha, Subhadra and Balabhadra, each seated in their own gigantic procession chariot pulled by hundreds of pilgrims, on their journey from the ma...

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Autres titres:Procession
Auteur principal: Aktor, Mikael 1949- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Danois
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Publié: Univ. [2017]
Dans: Religionsvidenskabeligt tidsskrift
Année: 2017, Volume: 66, Pages: 117-132
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Jagannātha / Rathayātrā / Procession / Réception <scientifique> / Missionaire / Anglais / Substantif / Juggernaut (Locutions)
RelBib Classification:AG Vie religieuse
CC Christianisme et religions non-chrétiennes; relations interreligieuses
RJ Mission
Sujets non-standardisés:B Christian Mission
B Jagannatha
B East India Company
B Car Festival
B juggernaut
B Hinduism
B Puri
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Résumé:The Car Festival in Puri, Odisha, is one of the world's largest religious processions. About one million pilgrims follow the three god-siblings, Jagannatha, Subhadra and Balabhadra, each seated in their own gigantic procession chariot pulled by hundreds of pilgrims, on their journey from the main Jagannatha temple to the Gu??ica temple three kilometers away. The perception of this procession festival by the British missionaries in Odisha during the first half of the 19th century was the background for the linguistic transformation whereby the name of a god, Jagannatha, became the notion of an overwhelming destructive force, ‘juggernaut'. The article examines the history of this transformation by a reading of quotes from foreign travelers to Odisha during the 14th through the 19th century. It also offers a description of the procession rituals, a reflection on the general characteristics of religious processions, and a discussion of the ‘idolatry' discourse that lies behind the linguistic transformation from ‘Jagannatha' to ‘juggernaut'.
Vognprocessionen i Puri, Odisha, er en af verdens største religiøse processioner. Omkring en million pilgrimme følger de tre gude-søskende, Jagannatha, Subhadra og Balabhadra, hver i deres egen gigantiske processionsvogn trukket af mange hundrede pilgrimme, på deres rejse fra det store Jagannatha-tempel til det mindre Gu??ica-tempel tre kilometer væk. Opfattelsen af denne pilgrimsprocession hos de britiske missionærer i Odisha i den første halvdel af det 19. århundrede var baggrunden for den sproglige transformation der forvandlede navnet på en gud, Jagannatha, til forestillingen om en overvældende kaotisk kraft, ‘juggernaut'. Artiklen undersøger historien bag denne transformation gennem en række citater fra fremmede rejsende i perioden fra det 14. til det 19. århundrede. Den beskriver vognprocessionens ritualer, foreslår nogle ideer til, hvordan vi generelt skal forstå religiøse processioner og diskuterer den diskurs om ‘afgudsdyrkelse', som ligger bag forvandlingen fra ‘Jagannatha' til ‘juggernaut'.
ISSN:1904-8181
Contient:Enthalten in: Religionsvidenskabeligt tidsskrift
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.7146/rt.v0i66.26450