Religious Memory in a Changing Society: The Case of India and Papua New Guinea

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://changing-sp.com/ojs/index.php/csp/article/view/174/121" target="_blank" >https://changing-sp.com/ojs/index.php/csp/article/view/174/121</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/csp.2021.5.1.121" target="_blank" >10.15826/csp.2021.5.1.121</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Religious Memory in a Changing Society: The Case of India and Papua New Guinea

Original language description

The study analyzes the place of religion in the national collective memory and the changes that have taken place in the field of religion in connection with the modernization and emergence of modern nation-states in India and Papua New Guinea (PNG). In the case of PNG, we look at the place of Christianization in the process of modernization, while in the case of India, we analyze the use of Hinduism in the process of forming national identity. Both cases are analyzed with the use of selected cases of material culture in specific localities and they show the ongoing struggle for the incorporation or segregation of original religious tradition into national identity. Both cases are analyzed on the basis of field research. In the case of India, we look at Bharat Mata Mandir in Haridwar, and in the case of Papua New Guinea, the tambaranbuilding in the village of Kambot in East Sepik Province. While Bharat Mata Mandir demonstrates the modernization of tradition and the incorporation of religion into modern (originally secular) nationalism, the decline in tambaran houses is a result of Christianization and the modernization of PNG. The study shows that if there is a connection between religious memory and national memory (or national identity), the religious tradition is maintained or strengthened, whereas when religious memory and national memory are disconnected, religious memory is weakened in a modernizing society.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

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Continuities

O - Projekt operacniho programu

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Changing Societies and Personalities

ISSN

2587-6104

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

5

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

RU - RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

36-62

UT code for WoS article

000641996800003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85105812888