When The Hindu-Goddess Moves To Denmark: The Establishment Of A Sakta-Tradition

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 underst...

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1. VerfasserIn: Qvortrup Fibiger, Marianne (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Equinox 2012
In: Bulletin for the study of religion
Jahr: 2012, Band: 41, Heft: 3, Seiten: 29-36
weitere Schlagwörter:B Hinduism in Diaspora
B religious adaption
B Goddess worship
B Collective Memory
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:2041-1871
Enthält:Enthalten in: Bulletin for the study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/bsor.v41i3.29