Seva in Mata Amritanandamayi Mission: Social Service as a Public Face of Faith
Based on fieldwork with Mata Amritanandamayi Mission (MAM) headed by Mata Amritanandamayi and headquartered in Kollam, Kerala, India, I discuss its aspects of seva or social service. I propose that seva in MAM is done by followers and disciples volitionally and then it becomes a doctrine in Amma...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2016]
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| In: |
Implicit religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 19, Issue: 3, Pages: 401-423 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mata Amritanandamayi Mission
/ Social services
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| Further subjects: | B
Guru
B Political systems B Social Services B Faith B Mata Amritanandamayi Mission B Seva B Social Systems B Will B Proposition (Logic) B Hugging Saint |
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Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | Based on fieldwork with Mata Amritanandamayi Mission (MAM) headed by Mata Amritanandamayi and headquartered in Kollam, Kerala, India, I discuss its aspects of seva or social service. I propose that seva in MAM is done by followers and disciples volitionally and then it becomes a doctrine in Amma's ministry. I observed two social service projects in terms of their interfaces with various systems such as economic-political-social, partnerships and nature of routine operations. I make some propositions on seva in MAM and emphasize that it typifies the living guru's expansive agency, uncontainability and more specifically a form of implicit religion. For followers, seva is a means to gain a place in Amma's coterie, and, the actual operations of the projects signify a sacred-secular partnership such that we can begin to speak of its politics. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Implicit religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/imre.v19i3.31114 |
