 |
|
| “Dharma Is Not a Dinosaur!”: Religion and Modern Identity in the Storytelling of an Indian Guru | ||
| 作者 | DeNapoli, Antoinette E. (著) |
|---|---|
| 出處題名 | Storytelling, Self, Society |
| 卷期 | v.15 n.2 |
| 出版日期 | 2019 |
| 頁次 | 191 - 224 |
| 出版者 | Wayne State University Press |
| 出版者網址 | http://wsupress.wayne.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Detroit, MI, US [底特律, 密西根州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author Affiliation: Texas Christian University, USA. |
| 摘要 | This article argues that an Indian, female religious leader (guru) (henceforth, “Guru Ma”) transforms received understandings of dharma, which has often been translated in western scholarly discourse as “religion,” through the everyday, devotional practice of storytelling. Based on fifteen months of ethnographic research conducted with Guru Ma between 2013 and 2015 in the north Indian state of Rajasthan, and through a discourse-centered analysis of her narratives, the article contends that Guru Ma uses storytelling as a modality to construct the idea of the “modern” with respect to a religiously pluralistic “dharmic” sensibility of empathy, flexibility, adaptability, cooperation, and beneficence. By emphasizing that the modern comprises cultivating a dharmic mindset, rather than imitating a westernized lifestyle based on the mindless consumption of goods, Guru Ma's telling of stories disrupts mainstream cultural perceptions of dharma as opposed and even contradictory to the modern. Her narrative performances foreground what the author terms “the modernity of dharma” for people in whose understandings modern identity associates with westernized consumer capitalist values, and not with the dharmic mindset emphasized in Guru Ma's stories. |
| 目次 | Introduction: Performing the “Dharmic Modern” through Stories 192 Background: The Everyday Life of a “Modern” Dharmic Guru 197 “Raw Hindus”: Muralidhar and the Moral Grammar of Empathy 200 “Becoming Dharmic Moderns”: Performing the Superhuman 203 A “This-Worldly” Brahman? Guru Ma’s Experimental Dharma 207 Conclusion: A Dharmic Worldview for the Universal Common Good 215 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 218 NOTES 218 WORKS CITED 221 |
| ISSN | 15505340 (P); 19320280 (E) |
| DOI | 10.13110/storselfsoci.15.2.0191 |
| 點閱次數 | 82 |
| 建檔日期 | 2024.12.04 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.12.13 |
建議您使用 Chrome, Firefox, Safari(Mac) 瀏覽器能獲得較好的檢索效果，IE不支援本檢索系統。
