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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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Equinox
2012
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Bulletin for the study of religion
Année: 2012, Volume: 41, Numéro: 3, Pages: 29-36 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Hinduism in Diaspora
B religious adaption B Goddess worship B Collective Memory |
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| Résumé: | 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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| ISSN: | 2041-1871 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Bulletin for the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bsor.v41i3.29 |