Folk Hinduism

Accounts of Hinduism have predominantly been approached via literary and textual avenues, through which its ancient, philosophical, abstract, and transcendent features are highlighted. Even ethnographic accounts of Hinduism have been dominated by attention to the Sanskritic and Brahmanic elements derived from such a scriptural, elitist grounding. Such foci are limited because of the neglect of oral traditions and attention to Hindu practices, particularly at the local, regional levels and the role of specific household and cult deities, rituals, and festivals in sustaining a religious worldview. Writing in 1976, the late Indian social anthropologist M. N. Srinivas noted the “downgrading of folk religion” (1976: 288–90) and the scholarly neglect of the “folk” elements in Hinduism both by western and Indian social scientists, arguing that this is a viable, independent, and legitimate realm for social science theorizing

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• Datti Ji

  Open Access•Akhilesh Sharma•Understanding Culture and Society…•2021

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• The Remembered Village

  M N Srinivas•Remembered Village•1976

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• Official' and `Popular' Hinduism in Diaspora

  Open Access•Vertovec, Steven Vertovec•Contributions to Indian Sociology•1994

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