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The whole world is changing with incredible speed towards something
radically new, yet people across the globe also show resistance to
the forces that homogenize our lives. This book deals with a
community that has found its niche in the remote Niamgiri mountain
range of Odisha (India) and is struggling to preserve its way of
life: the Dongria Kond. In recent years, they made the headlines as
the real "Avatars" because they successfully fought a multinational
company's plans to mine the mountains. From the perspective of the
Dongria Kond, these mountains are the seat of gods, and the whole
environment is animated by spiritual forces. This highly complex
cosmic order includes humans and non-humans and rests on a divine
law (niam). This book captures the viewpoint of the Dongria Kond
and provides deep insights into their vision of the world. It
offers elaborate accounts of how the Dongria relate to the outside
world, conceive of their own society and engage in complex rituals
in order to (re-)establish the cosmos. The book confronts the
reader with radically different imaginings of familiar human
concerns: love, fertility, wealth, status and well-being.
The whole world is changing with incredible speed towards something
radically new, yet people across the globe also show resistance to
the forces that homogenize our lives. This book deals with a
community that has found its niche in the remote Niamgiri mountain
range of Odisha (India) and is struggling to preserve its way of
life: the Dongria Kond. In recent years, they made the headlines as
the real "Avatars" because they successfully fought a multinational
company's plans to mine the mountains. From the perspective of the
Dongria Kond, these mountains are the seat of gods, and the whole
environment is animated by spiritual forces. This highly complex
cosmic order includes humans and non-humans and rests on a divine
law (niam). This book captures the viewpoint of the Dongria Kond
and provides deep insights into their vision of the world. It
offers elaborate accounts of how the Dongria relate to the outside
world, conceive of their own society and engage in complex rituals
in order to (re-)establish the cosmos. The book confronts the
reader with radically different imaginings of familiar human
concerns: love, fertility, wealth, status and well-being.
This volume explores the socio-cultural dynamics of religious
speeches through an analysis of Christian and Islamic sermons and
preachers in the past and present. Part I focuses on the explicit
contribution of sermons in socio-cultural transformation processes.
It shows how the sermons’ connection to holy texts and religious
norms of the specific group results in a tense relationship between
preaching and the respective socio-cultural present. Part II
intensifies this observation, analysing the dynamic tension between
normativity and popularity. Rather than juxtaposing normative
stances and popularity of sermons, it shows how that normativity
can itself contribute to popularity and the quest of popularity
carries its own normative stances. Part III explores the relevance
of the ritual embeddedness of religious speech for the sermon as a
catalyst of social dynamics and as a hybrid of normativity and
popularity. It shows how speech and rituals are situated in a
reciprocal relationship, where the performance of the speech, its
own ritual character, and its positioning within religious practice
must be individually examined.
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