Are we Hindus? Religion in contemporary Tamil Dalit discourse

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://studiadecultura.up.krakow.pl/index.php/argument-journal/article/view/6713" target="_blank" >https://studiadecultura.up.krakow.pl/index.php/argument-journal/article/view/6713</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24917/20841043.8.2.2" target="_blank" >10.24917/20841043.8.2.2</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Are we Hindus? Religion in contemporary Tamil Dalit discourse

Original language description

Based primarily on original sources in Tamil as well as interviews, the article seeks to portraynthe attitude of Tamil Dalit intellectuals and political leaders towards the question of religion.nIt seeks to discover the role of religion in their discourse and how they utilise religious mattersnto mobilise their fellow caste members. It maps their efforts to distance themselves fromnHinduism and to propagate the particularity of Dalit deities and Dalit religion as a part of theirnnewly constructed identity. Their opinions on the possibility of conversion are also brieflynnoted. These attitudes are examined from the viewpoint of the differing emancipation strategiesnof the three major Tamil Dalit castes. The Paraiyar as well as the Arunthaiyar leaders trynto reject the Hindu identity, though the common folk consider themselves to be Hindus. ThenDevendrars on the contrary associate themselves with the Hindu gods and Hindu temples, theynclaim direct connection with some of them. Even they, however, tend to emphasise particularitynof their deities as a part of their identity building

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60304 - Religious studies

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-02363S" target="_blank" >GA16-02363S: Disadvantaged Communities in South India. Their Emancipation and the Building of New Identities</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Argument: Biannual Philosophical Journal

ISSN

2084-1043

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

273-288

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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