Sufi and Bhakti Performers and Followers at the Margins of the Global South

Communication Strategies to Negotiate Situated Adversities

Bibliographic Data

ID3267652
AuthorsUttaran Dutta (0000-0002-6833-1661, Arizona State University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume10
Issue3
Pages206
Publication date2019-03-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel10030206
OpenAlexW2921752239
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited23

Throughout the globe (particularly in the global South), religious orthodoxy and their discriminatory intolerances are negatively impacting religious freedom of underserved populations, particularly those who practice/follow alternate spiritual praxis, like the Sufi and Bhakti performers from rural and geographically remote spaces of South Asia. Hindu and Islamic fundamentalist discourses/doctrines are propagating their conservative religious agendas and thereby creating tensions and separatism across the subcontinent. Such religious extremism is responsible for the threatening and even murdering of nonsectarian torchbearers, and their free thoughts. This study focused on various alternate communication strategies espoused by Sufi and bhakti performers and followers in order to negotiate and overcome their marginalized existence as well as to promote the plurality of voices and values in the society. This article identified the following communication strategies-innovative usages of language of inversion or enigmatic language; strategic camouflaging of authors'/writers' identity, and intergenerational communication of discourses and spiritual values to ensure freedom and survival of their traditions

Hinduism · Islam · Negotiation · Orthodoxy · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Religious studies

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