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Struggles for Hindu Sacred Space in the Netherlands - Affect and Absence (Hardcover)
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Struggles for Hindu Sacred Space in the Netherlands - Affect and Absence (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
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This book asks us to consider what is absent, rather than what is
present, when studying religions. Priya Swamy argues that absent
religious spaces are in themselves abstract locations that
painfully memorialize feelings of shame, oppression and
marginalization. She shows that these ‘traumas of absence’ –
the complex, entwined and emotional responses to absent spaces –
can be articulated through mob violence and destruction, but also
anticolonial struggles or human rights issues. This study focusses
on the absence of temples across the global Hindu diaspora, taking
the tumultuous narrative of the Devi Dhaam community in Amsterdam
Southeast as a central location to detail the over thirty-year
struggle to build a Hindu temple in a neighbourhood of vibrant
mosques and churches. In 2010, their makeshift space was pulled
away from them, provoking tears among elderly devotees, rage among
board members and devastation in the wider community. Leaving their
goddess with no place to live, some devotees feared for the
dangerous repercussions that would follow from uprooting a divine
presence from its home. By exploring the ways in which the trauma
of absent religious spaces has become a formative aspect of
localized but also globalized Hindu identity, this book rethinks
the way that empty lots, piles of rubble and abandoned buildings
around the world are themselves powerful monuments to the trauma of
absent temple spaces that mobilize campaigns for Hindu spaces.
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