Divine Enterprise: Hindu Priests and Ritual Change in Neighbourhood Hindu Temples in Bangalore

Srinivas, Tulasi

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“…10 Acts of publicity around potholes share features with acts of 'nuisance talk' (Ghertner, 2015: 80) and imperatives to clean the city in order to expand middle-class access while rooting out the poor (Anjaria, 2016(Anjaria, , 2009. While the pujas centre on potholes, one cannot overlook the act of ritual itself, one of the critical features of divine spaces in urban South Asia (Benjamin, 2015;Srinivas, 2006;Taneja, 2017). The emphasis on potholes in the songs, the pujas, the artistic forms and the performativity of tongue-in-cheek parody each reveal different valences of the pothole where the hole holds life.…”

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Death traps: Holes in urban India

Solomon

2021

Environ Plan D

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This article is an ethnographic study of potholes in roads in urban India. The article describes different forms of attention to potholes, including cases of media advocacy, clinical reflections on injury and attempts by an accident survivor to document danger on the roads. Throughout, it argues for attention to the embodiment of infrastructure, and particularly, how people move through infrastructures. The article stems from a broader research project about traumatic injury from traffic accidents, many due to potholes. Taking these cases as sentinels of urban wound culture, the article asks: What if urban theory took wounding as a characteristic feature of everyday urbanism? What might this mean for studies of infrastructure’s affordances, risks and embodiment?

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Section: City Songsmentioning

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Death traps: Holes in urban India

Solomon

2021

Environ Plan D

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“…However, it has not been adopted by people due to the lack of religious support and ritualization (Figure 3c,d). New rituals and theological discourses can easily be developed in Hinduism to adopt new technologies in religion (DeNapoli 2017;Srinivas 2004). Developing new rituals for such types of practices can help their popularization and adaptation among people.…”

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“…In various contexts, Hinduism is considered as a religion; however, it is a way of life containing many religious entities widely practiced in the Indian subcontinent. Hinduism has many unique features like receptivity to change, acceptance, and the Religions 2021, 12, 358 2 of 12 incorporation of diverse ideas from different sources, which offers an opportunity for its alignment with timely needs and the development of nature-based spirituality (Miller 1977;Srinivas 2004;Haigh 2010;DeNapoli 2017). Worldwide efforts are being made to interweave environment-friendly values into religions through restructuring their pre-existent worldviews, attitudes, practices, rituals, and traditions, which can improve people's attitude and behavior toward nature.…”

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A Reinterpretation of Hindu Spirituality for Addressing Environmental Problems

Awasthi

2021

Religions

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Global environmental change is a serious threat to our existence and requires immediate actions from every dimension of our efforts. The cultural pathway has much potential to address environmental problems because it is expected to promote environment-friendly behavior in people. However, its implementation on the ground requires a wise coordination of the cultural and scientific ways of thinking. Hinduism has great potential to embrace environment-friendly behavior due to its receptivity to change and tendency of adopting and theologizing new developments. However, due to the presence of a wide gap between theoretical philosophy and actual practices, the potential of environmental sensibility, inherent in Hindu spirituality, could not be harnessed. Here, I reinterpret the key concepts of Hinduism in the light of modern scientific wisdom for their synchronization with current challenges. I identify some solutions for promoting environment-friendly practices in Hinduism through the coordination of science and culture.

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“…The Brahmins who occupied positions of scholarship received earnings through offerings given by devotees in temples, revenues from temple lands, and offerings for conducting ceremonies and rituals outside the temple. In an urbanized India, priests continue to contextualize and reinterpret Hindu ritual traditions to suit the lifestyles of devotees, thus maintaining their streams of income (Srinivas, 2006). Although large portions of land were granted to Brahmins by kings and rulers as a reward for their services, other Kshatriyas often managed those lands (Bendix, 1960).…”

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Understanding Economic Inequality through the Lens of Caste

Bapuji

Chrispal

2018

Proceedings

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Research on economic inequality has largely focused on understanding the relationship between organizations and inequality but has paid limited attention to the role of institutions in the creation and maintenance of inequality. In this article, we use insights from the caste system an institution that perpetuates socioeconomic inequalities and limits human functionsto elaborate on three elements of economic inequality: uneven dispersions in resource endowments, uneven access to productive resources and opportunities, and uneven rewards to resource contributions. We argue that economic inequalities persist because these three different elements of inequality feed from and reinforce each other. Our study underscores the potential of the caste lens to inform research on economic inequality as well as organizational theory and practice.

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Divine Enterprise: Hindu Priests and Ritual Change in Neighbourhood Hindu Temples in Bangalore

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Death traps: Holes in urban India

Death traps: Holes in urban India

A Reinterpretation of Hindu Spirituality for Addressing Environmental Problems

Understanding Economic Inequality through the Lens of Caste

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