Nine nights of power : durgā, dolls, and darbārs
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Hüsken Ute (1965-....) ; Narayanan Vasudha ; Zotter Astrid ;
- ISBN : 978-1-4384-8407-5, 1-4384-8407-0
- Sujets : Pūjā (hindouisme), Fêtes religieuses, Actes de congrès, Durgā
- Comprend : Durgā, dolls, and darbārs, 9 nights of power
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 volume (XIII-294 pages), : Illustrations (surtout en couleurs), carte illustrée en couleurs, couverture illustrée en couleurs, 24 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : SUNY series in Hindu studies
Notes
La page XIII indique : 'Most of the papers in this volume were presented at two meetings ... in 2016: a workshop at the University of Texas at Austin and an exploratory session on Navarātri at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Antonio. The present volume is the companion to ... 'Nine nights of the goddess: the Navarātri Festival in South Asia' ... published by SUNY Press in 2018' ; La ressource est également disponible en version numérique ; Notes bibliographiques et bibliographie en fin de contribution. Index
Résumé
The autumnal Navarātri festival - also called Durgā Pūjā, Dassehra, or Dasain - is the most important Hindu festival in South Asia and wherever Hindus settle. A nine-night-long celebration in honor of the goddess Durgā, it ends on the tenth day with a celebration called 'the victorious tenth' (vijayadaśamī). The rituals that take place in domestic, royal, and public spaces are closely connected with one's station in life and dependent on social status, economic class, caste, and gender issues. Exploring different aspects of the festival as celebrated in diverse regions of South Asia and in the South Asian diaspora, this book addresses the following common questions: What does this festival do? What does it achieve, and how? Why and in what way does it sometimes fail? How do mass communication and social media increase participation in and contribute to the changing nature of the festival? The contributors address these questions from multiple perspectives and discuss issues of agency, authority, ritual efficacy, change, appropriation, and adaptation. Because of the festival's reach beyond its diverse celebrations in South Asia, its influence can be seen in the rituals and dances in many parts of Western Europe and North America.