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...
| Published in: | Religionsvidenskabeligt tidsskrift |
|---|---|
| Subtitles: | Procession |
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Danish |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Univ.
[2017]
|
| In: |
Religionsvidenskabeligt tidsskrift
|
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jagannātha
/ Rathayātrā
/ Procession
/ Reception
/ Missionary
/ English language
/ Noun
/ Juggernaut (Word)
|
| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
Christian Mission
B Jagannatha B East India Company B Car Festival B juggernaut B Hinduism B Puri |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (doi) Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | 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 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religionsvidenskabeligt tidsskrift
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.7146/rt.v0i66.26450 |