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Hinglaj Devi: Identity, Change, and Solidification at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan

Autor Jürgen Schaflechner
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 feb 2018
About two hundred kilometers west of the city of Karachi, in the desert of Baluchistan, Pakistan, sits the shrine of the Hindu Goddess Hinglaj. Despite the temple's ancient Hindu and Muslim history, an annual festival at Hinglaj has only been established within the last three decades, in part because of the construction of the Makran Coastal Highway, which connects the distant rural shrine with urban Pakistan. Now, an increasingly confident minority Hindu community has claimed Hinglaj as their main religious center, a site for undisturbed religious performance and expression. In Hinglaj Devi, Jürgen Schaflechner studies literary sources in Hindi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, and Urdu alongside extensive ethnographical research at the shrine, examining the political and cultural influences at work at the temple and tracking the remote desert shrine's rapid ascent to its current status as the most influential Hindu pilgrimage site in Pakistan. Schaflechner introduces the unique character of this place of pilgrimage and shows its modern importance not only for Hindus, but also for Muslims and Sindhi nationalists. Ultimately, this is an investigation of the Pakistani Hindu community's beliefs and practices at their largest place of worship in the Islamic Republic today--a topic of increasing importance to Pakistan's contemporary society.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190850524
ISBN-10: 0190850523
Pagini: 360
Dimensiuni: 239 x 157 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

Drawing on six years of extensive ethnographic fieldwork and a wide-ranging literary study encompassing histor-ical sources in six languages, Jürgen Schaflechner brings to the forefront a much-neglected area of research, studying the Hindu goddess tradition and pilgrimage site of Hinglaj Devi in Balochistan, Pakistan.
Hinglaj Devi: Identity, Change and Solidification at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan is a valuable scholarly monograph...The book analyzes communities that claim Hi?glai as their ritual space, and shows how the Lohana community and their organization Hinglaj Sheva Mandal have succeeded in the homogenization of the traditions of the shrine. The book is a detailed textual, historical, and ethnographic study of this homogenization process, and is very valuable as a documentation of contemporary developments.
Because of its great many strengths, this book is essential reading for those interested in Hinduism in parts of South Asia now officially separated from India - namely Pakistan and Bangladesh - and for those interested in sacred sites more broadly. Schaflechner ends his book with the hope that his work will generate interest in, and further research on, Hinduism in Pakistan, and aspects of that nation-state that go beyond well-worn narratives of a failed state. I have no doubt both hopes will be fulfilled.

Notă biografică

Jürgen Schaflechner is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg.