Bassett & Avalos/IRT5M, 21. Is Adivasi religion different from Hinduism?

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How to Cite: Elison, William. 21. Is Adivasi religion different from Hinduism?. Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. Sep 2022. ISBN 9781800502031.

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A response to the previous piece, this essay complicates the historical push-pull dynamic between Adivasi groups and forces of Hinduization, which has gained fresh salience in today's Hindu nationalist India. As in many other places, in India, religion gives shape to Indigenous communities' claims to ancestral territories. To identify a local deity as a Hindu god is thus to threaten its worshippers' claim to cultural particularity—and ultimately, to Indigeneity itself.

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  • container title
    Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes
  • creator
    William Elison
  • isbn
    9781781795927 (eBook)
  • publisher
    Equinox Publishing Ltd.
  • publisher place
    Sheffield, United Kingdom
  • series title
    Religion in 5 Minutes
  • doi
    https://doi.org/10.1558/isbn.9781781795927