Indigenous Ritual Geography and Interreligious Participation: An Account of Fulpātī Ritual in Eastern Himalayas in India
Interspiritual ritual participation as essential to everyday spirituality is a rewarding investment in decoding interreligious dialogue. At the current juncture in Indian social-religious history when a monolithic understanding of "religion" is defining social life at macro levels, it is a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
2021
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| In: |
Studies in interreligious dialogue
Year: 2021, Volume: 31, Issue: 2, Pages: 129-152 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Himalaya (Ost)
/ Nepalesen
/ Fulpātī
/ Folk religion
/ Interreligiosity
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| IxTheo Classification: | AF Geography of religion AG Religious life; material religion AX Inter-religious relations BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
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| Summary: | Interspiritual ritual participation as essential to everyday spirituality is a rewarding investment in decoding interreligious dialogue. At the current juncture in Indian social-religious history when a monolithic understanding of "religion" is defining social life at macro levels, it is an urgent need to explore "indigenous religion paradigm" to understand indigenous ritual aesthetics at micro levels. In the topographical and environmental context of mountain life in Eastern Himalayas in India, the paradigm of indigenous ritual geography is a valid model for understanding how transitions between and across religious/sectarian boundaries take place through shared yet distinct cosmologies, overlapping cultural symbolism and most importantly, mutually shared and reciprocal participation of human and non-human actors in religious rituals. Through a detailed ethnographic decoding of the Fulpātī ritual in eastern Himalayas, this paper aims to illustrate how exploring the ecoaesthetics of ritual theatre is a powerful way for mapping ecopsychological response to interreligious engagement. |
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| ISSN: | 1783-1806 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in interreligious dialogue
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/SID.31.2.3290056 |