Ritual Disintermediations: Tradition and Transformation of Sati Worship
This article examines the consecration and transformation of the customary practice of sati (widow burning) in the aftermath of a violent case of immolation in 1987 in Rajasthan, India. Focusing on debates around a penal law that was subsequently passed to criminalize all “glorification” of sati, I...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2021
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Material religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 381-404 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Rajasthan
/ Marwaris
/ Sati
/ Ritual
/ Social change
/ Religious change
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RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism KBM Asia |
Further subjects: | B
Activism
B legal regulation B Sati B Ritual B Semiotics B Marwaris B disintermediation |
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