‘Prayer and power in the Sangh Parivar’
8052013
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‘Prayer and power in the Sangh Parivar’
by
by
Dr. Kalyani Menon
DePaul University, USA
Abstract:
This paper examines how religious expression, often perceived as distinct from the world of politics, provides a means through which the Sangh Parivar disseminates its ideological norms and intervenes in the public sphere. Analyzing essays, prayers, and songs published by women’s organizations in the Sangh Parivar, as well as public rituals organized by them in Delhi, the speaker examines how women activists use prevalent Hindu images and practices to appeal to new recruits and to construct their exclusionary community. It also suggests that it is precisely because religion is central to how people construct themselves and imagine their worlds that it has become an important form of the political in modern India, and in the world today.
DePaul University, USA
Abstract:
This paper examines how religious expression, often perceived as distinct from the world of politics, provides a means through which the Sangh Parivar disseminates its ideological norms and intervenes in the public sphere. Analyzing essays, prayers, and songs published by women’s organizations in the Sangh Parivar, as well as public rituals organized by them in Delhi, the speaker examines how women activists use prevalent Hindu images and practices to appeal to new recruits and to construct their exclusionary community. It also suggests that it is precisely because religion is central to how people construct themselves and imagine their worlds that it has become an important form of the political in modern India, and in the world today.
Speaker:
Dr. Kalyani Devaki Menon is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University, Chicago, USA. Her book, Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2010 (Social Science Press 2012).
Dr. Kalyani Devaki Menon is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University, Chicago, USA. Her book, Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2010 (Social Science Press 2012).
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