'Who the hell do you think you are?' Promoting religious identity among young Hindus in Britain
'Who the hell do you think you are?' Promoting religious identity among young Hindus in Britain
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“你以为你到底是谁？”
DOI：
10.1080/014198700328980
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发表时间：
2000
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj
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作者：
Dhooleka Sarhadi Raj
本文探讨了英国的印度教激进主义如何挑战我们对种族和宗教之间关系的理解。它反对印度教身份被理解为民族身份发展的自然“产品”的流行模式。相反，本文呼吁思考当前的宗教激进主义作为对多元文化政治，民族归属和作为少数民族的经验的回应。基于人类学的实地考察，本文探讨了一个组织的发展，成功地建立了印度教社会在英国，一个从最初的亲印度教的一个拥护印度教。对亲印度教言论的分析揭示了这一群体将自己与其他亚洲人，特别是穆斯林少数民族区别开来的目的。这些“散居”青年中宗教活动的例子要求我们重新思考我们对宗教与族裔之间联系的理解。
This article explores how Hindu activism in Britain challenges our understanding of the relationship between ethnicity and religion. It argues against the prevalent model in which Hindu identity is understood as a natural ‘product’ of ethnic identity development. Instead, this article calls for thinking about current religious activism as a response to multicultural politics, national belonging and the experience of being an ethnic minority. Based on anthropological fieldwork, the article examines the development of an organization that has successfully established Hindu societies across the UK, one that changed from initially being pro-Hindu to one that espouses Hindutva. The analysis of the rhetoric of a pro-Hindu speech reveals the aims of this group to distinguish themselves from other Asians, particularly the Muslim minority. Such examples of religious activism among “diaspora” youth require us to rethink our understandings of the connections between religion and ethnicity.