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Twisting the wrist: Using different ways of looking to analyse South Asian religious practices

Twisting the wrist: Using different ways of looking to analyse South Asian religious practices. A workshop session with Jacqueline Suthren Hirst and John Zavos. Kaleidoscopic ways of looking.

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Twisting the wrist: Using different ways of looking to analyse South Asian religious practices

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  1. Twisting the wrist:Using different ways of looking to analyse South Asian religious practices A workshop session with Jacqueline SuthrenHirst and John Zavos

  2. Kaleidoscopic ways of looking • ‘a constantly changing pattern of …reflections as the observer looks into the tube and rotates it’ (SOED 1993: 1470) • Twisting the kaleidoscope = a multi-perspectival approach towards South Asian religions

  3. Panth, kismet, dharm te qaum • Ballard (1996) • Punjabi terms used to conceptualise dynamics of religious practice • eg shrine of Baba Hasan Das • Participation on basis of kismetic and panthic resonance, even if dharmic practices and qaumic identification is divergent

  4. Analysing social space • The location of ritual and other practices in social space • Analysing understandings of public and private space (eg purdah) • Association and dissociation in shared space • Negotiation and re-negotiation of social space (dynamic not fixed)

  5. Teacher pupil traditions • A model of transmission • Emphasis on: • Shared discourse • Historical context • Linkages and ruptures across ‘religions’ • Modern gurus and others transcending religion?

  6. Gender, politics, religion • Consistent deployment = nuanced, developing analysis • Exploring gender-based power/challenging western understandings of feminism • Exploring dynamics of power relations • Religion…

  7. …The World Religions model • SuthrenHirst and Zavos (2005), ‘Teaching Across South Asian Religious Traditions’, Contemporary South Asia 14 (1) • Exploring the interactions between ‘religion’ and other significant discourses (other ways of looking) • ‘Decentring religion’

  8. Kaleidoscopic ways of looking • Panth kismet dharmteqaum • Analysing social space • Teacher pupil traditions • Gender • Politics • Religion (the World Religions model)

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