Seeing, imagined, and lived: creating darshan in transnational Gaudiya Vaishnavism
Scholarship on Hindu traditions and practices proposes the practice of darshan as fundamental to Hindu traditions, particularly in temple worship, observing that devotees seek out images of deities primarily to see them and "receive" their darshan. These works typically gloss the definitio...
| Autres titres: | Special Issue: The Qur'an and affect |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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Body and religion
Année: 2019, Volume: 3, Numéro: 2, Pages: 188-208 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Vishnouisme gaudiya
/ Darshan
/ Expérience religieuse
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| Classifications IxTheo: | AG Vie religieuse BK Hindouisme |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Religious Practices
B visual and material culture B Hinduism B Darshan |
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| Résumé: | Scholarship on Hindu traditions and practices proposes the practice of darshan as fundamental to Hindu traditions, particularly in temple worship, observing that devotees seek out images of deities primarily to see them and "receive" their darshan. These works typically gloss the definition of darshan with a sentence or two about seeing, exchanging glances, and/or receiving blessings. In this paper, I focus on the ways in which darshan is ideally imagined in conjunction with other bodily sensory practices through sources of authority, such as texts and senior devotees, to create a specific sensory experience and expectation in the transnational Gaudiya Vaishnava community. I then look to the lived realities of darshan in this tradition, specifically how devotees negotiate the structures created through sources of authority in their daily lives. Through this juxtaposition of idealized and lived darshan, I argue that we need a new approach towards theories of practice to take into account the complexities of darshanic moments in this and other religious practices. |
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| ISSN: | 2057-5831 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Body and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bar.15677 |