دورية أكاديمية
From Ritual Mourning to Solitary Grief: Reinterpretation of Hindu Death Rituals in India.
العنوان: | From Ritual Mourning to Solitary Grief: Reinterpretation of Hindu Death Rituals in India. |
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المؤلفون: | Ghosh B; Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland., Bk A; CSSS/SSS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. |
المصدر: | Omega [Omega (Westport)] 2024 Jun; Vol. 89 (2), pp. 759-776. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Mar 31. |
نوع المنشور: | Journal Article |
اللغة: | English |
بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: Sage Publications Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 1272106 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1541-3764 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00302228 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Omega (Westport) Subsets: MEDLINE |
أسماء مطبوعة: | Publication: 2015- : Los Angeles Sage Publications Original Publication: Westport, Conn., Greenwood Periodicals. |
مواضيع طبية MeSH: | Hinduism*/psychology , Grief* , COVID-19*/psychology , Ceremonial Behavior*, Humans ; India ; Funeral Rites/psychology ; Attitude to Death ; Female |
مستخلص: | This paper considers the way the outbreak of coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown has egregiously impeded the Hindu death ceremonies and mourning rituals in India. It makes a comparative analysis of how Hindu death rituals get renegotiated, modified and reinterpreted across two vastly different regions of India, both of which have their local customs. Whilst death rituals in India are contingent on the deceased's caste, community, class, gender and age, the impediment to the major death rituals creates a central conundrum for all mourners. It results from the substitution of 'sacred' ritual guidelines with new 'profane' ones for the 'disposal' of deceased COVID-19 patients. Departure from many significant pre-liminal rites, specific transition rites, and post-liminal rites has eschatological, ritual and cultural ramifications. The inability to grieve in unison during a Shraddh ceremony denies mourners any scope to quell distressing feelings about mortality which serves as a source of consolation. Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. |
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فهرسة مساهمة: | Keywords: COVID-19; Hindu death rituals; good and bad death; rites de passage; stigma |
تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20220401 Date Completed: 20240517 Latest Revision: 20240519 |
رمز التحديث: | 20240519 |
مُعرف محوري في PubMed: | PMC11100263 |
DOI: | 10.1177/00302228221085175 |
PMID: | 35360983 |
قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
تدمد: | 1541-3764 |
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DOI: | 10.1177/00302228221085175 |