Educating ‘Temple Cultures’ Heterogeneous Worship and Hindutva Politics in Kerala

Roopesh, O. B.

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“…Thus, character education is urgently needed. Character education becomes a priority because it raises social awareness of the realities of civilization and can create an effective action in the social environment's cycle (Fisher, 2021;Hudde, 2022;Jacobson, Levin, & Kapur, 2019;Kahne & Bowyer, 2017;May & Elder, 2018;Pham, Limbu, Bui, Nguyen, & Pham, 2019;Roopesh, 2021;Wamsler, 2020). In another context, character education produces an environment that offers guidelines for thinking and acting in order to prevent the restriction of the students' ideas and creativity.…”

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The Integration of the Self-Concept-Based Upanisad Learning Model in Blended Learning and its Impact on Character Development and Creative Thinking Skills

Suarnaya

Wayan

Asli

2022

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The aim of this research is to investigate the impact of a self-concept-based Upanisad learning model integrated in mixed learning on the building of character and creative thinking skills. This study adopted a quasi-experimental design with a posttest-only control design. The population of the study consisted of 90 students. A random sampling technique was used to take the samples which consist of 60 students. Tests and questionnaires were used as data collection methods. The test instruments used were a description test with 10 items and a questionnaire with a total of 30 items. The analysis technique employs MANOVA in SPSS. The results showed that learning with the self-concept based Upanisad learning model simultaneously or partially impacts character and creative thinking skills. The results show that students who are taught using the self-concept based Upanisad learning model gain mean scores in character and creative thinking skills. Moreover, other results show that learning with the self-concept based Upanisad learning model is more influential on students' character than their ability to think creatively. Based on these conclusions, the researcher recommended that a self-concept-based Upanishad learning model be able to be used as an innovative learning model for improving character and creative thinking skills.

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The Integration of the Self-Concept-Based Upanisad Learning Model in Blended Learning and its Impact on Character Development and Creative Thinking Skills

Suarnaya

Wayan

Asli

2022

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“…There is a visible proliferation of schools and private educational centres teaching Tantra and Śrīvidyā in Kerala. For instance, Roopesh (2021) gives an example of Ganesa Sadhana Kendram in Kozhikode district, where a training in Śrīvidyā is given to all interested individuals. 30…”

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The Young Goddess Who Dances through the Ordinariness of Life―A Study on the Tantric Traditions of Kerala

Karasinski-Sroka

Sharman²

2022

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Drawing on both ethnographic and literary sources, this paper indicates that initiations into the mantra of Bālā are essential rites of passage for various Tantric communities. We focus on two previously unstudied texts: Bālāviṃśati stotra (“Twenty Verses on the Bālā Goddess”), a popular eulogy sung on festive occasions in Keralan temples, and Bālādīkṣāpaddhati (“A Treatise on Initiation into the Bālā Mantra”), a short treatise explaining the rules of initiation into the Bālā cult of Kerala. The article contextualizes the texts by providing commentaries of practitioners and interpretations of Keralan gurus who initiate their adepts into Śrīvidyā.

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‘Elections can wait!’ The politics of constructing a ‘Hindu atmosphere’ in Kerala, South India

Paleri

Santhosh

2023

Mod. Asian Stud.

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The lack of electoral success of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the South Indian state of Kerala is often explained through the idea of Kerala ‘exceptionalism’, a broad term used to explain the unique historical, political, and developmental trajectory of the state. However, such explanations do not adequately address the systematic and concerted attempts by Hindu nationalist organizations to transform the cultural sphere of Kerala into a fertile ground for its future electoral politics. Through an ethnographic study of three Hindu nationalist organizations in the civil society sphere of Kodungallur, a multi-religious town in central Kerala, this article explores the politics and implications of their cultural interventions. The article argues that, peeved by an ‘absent Hindu atmosphere’ in Kerala, these organizations are trying to construct new forms of sociality and subjectivity and a grassroots public sphere embedded in Hindu nationalist ideology in Kodungallur. Often described by these organizations as ‘apolitical’ and ‘cultural’, these interventions are indeed a critique of the Kerala public sphere which is characterized by religious pluralism and secular sociality. Hence, the attempt to create a ‘Hindu atmosphere’ by these organizations is a deeply political endeavour aimed at creating an exclusivist Hindu hegemony in the cultural sphere, which they assume will pave the way for their electoral hegemony in Kerala in the long run.

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Educating ‘Temple Cultures’ Heterogeneous Worship and Hindutva Politics in Kerala

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

The Integration of the Self-Concept-Based Upanisad Learning Model in Blended Learning and its Impact on Character Development and Creative Thinking Skills

The Integration of the Self-Concept-Based Upanisad Learning Model in Blended Learning and its Impact on Character Development and Creative Thinking Skills

The Young Goddess Who Dances through the Ordinariness of Life―A Study on the Tantric Traditions of Kerala

‘Elections can wait!’ The politics of constructing a ‘Hindu atmosphere’ in Kerala, South India

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