Bonding with the Lord

Jagannath, Popular Culture and Community Formation

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Produktbeschreibung

Few other Hindu gods guide a regional consciousness, pervade walks of everyday life and define a collective psyche the way Lord Jagannath does in Odisha and its contiguous areas. Jagannath is metonymic of Odisha and the Odia way of life, arguably much more than any other god for a particular geography or its peoples. While not derecognising the historical and the spiritual aspects of Jagannath, Bonding with the Lord attempts to look at the deployment of Jagannath in contemporary cultural practices involving the sensorium in the widest sense. The project of a cultural Jagannath not only materialises him in people's everyday practices but also democratises scholarship on him. The expansion of the scope of research on Jagannath to cultural expressions in a more encompassing way rather than confining to 'elitist' religious/literary sources makes him an everyday presence and significantly enhances his sphere of influence. Jagannath's 'tribal' origin, his association with Buddhism and Jainism and his avatari status make him an all-encompassing, multilayered symbol and a treasure trove for multiple interpretations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9789388414524
• ISBN-10: 9388414527
• Artikelnr.: 58415771

Autorenporträt

Jyotirmaya Tripathy is a Professor of Cultural Studies at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. Uwe Skoda is an Associate Professor of India and South Asia Studies at the Department of Global Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Hermann Kulke Acknowledgements Introduction: Everyday Bonding
with Lord Jagannath in and beyond Odisha by Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Uwe
Skoda Section I: Mediating Jagannath 1. In the Eyes of God: Jagannath
Iconography in Popular Cultures: Shaswat Panda 2. Worldliness of the
Otherworldly: Dissemination of Devotion from Early Modern to Cassette Era:
Animesh Mohapatra 3. Syncretic Jagannath Culture and Popular Odia
Imagination: Representations of Lord Jagannath in Odia Cinema: Amarjeet
Nayak 4. The Prabachanas as Performatives: Tracing the Moral Grounds of
Spiritual Discourse in the Jagannath Culture: Ranjan Kumar Panda Section
II: Practising Jagannath 5. Eating with Eyes: The Food Economy of Jagannath
Culture: Umasankar Patra 6. Domestication of Jagannath Temple Rituals in
Odia Households: A Sociological Understanding of the Pantheism Pranaya
Kumar Swain 7. Contemporary Bangla Songs on Jagannath: A Hermeneutic for
Bhakti and Community of Bhaktas: Sreejit Datta Section III: Re-placing
Jagannath 8. Becoming Jagannath in Dravidanadu: Kanchi Kaveri Legend and
Other Possibilities in Kanathur Jagannath Temple: Jyotirmaya Tripathy 9.
Delhiwallah Jagannath and the Odia Diaspora:Notes towards a Social History:
Gautam Choubey 10. Jagannath in Tripura: Disappearance and Dissemination:
Samik Malla 11. A Scholarly Community around the Lord: The Orissa Research
Projects: Uwe Skoda About the Editors and Contributors Index