Sacred Space, Deity's Face: 'Sattvicification' as a strategy to set up and maintain the Shree Raam Mandir in Wijchen as a sacred site

A. Nugteren

Sacred Space, Deity's Face: 'Sattvicification' as a strategy to set up and maintain the Shree Raam Mandir in Wijchen as a sacred site

A. Nugteren

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Abstract

My main focus is on the idea of ritual purity as a quality held high in this particular non-brahmanic Hindu temple in the Netherlands. The process of 'sattvicification' may have similarities with generally recognized processes such as 'brahmanization', 'agamization', 'yogaization' and 'vedantaization', but something more is at stake here. I suggest that some factors in this process are the awareness of the Western gaze, and a deeply felt urge to create a truely sacred site after having been forced to make do with improvised places for so long.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Sacred Spaces and Contested Identities
Subtitle of host publication	Space and Ritual Dynamics in Europe and Africa
Editors	Paul Post, Philip Nel, Walter van Beek
Place of Publication	Trenton/London/Cape Town/Nairobi/Addis Ababa/Asmara/Ibadan/New Delhi
Publisher	Africa World Press
Pages	331-344
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	9781592219544, 9781592219551
Publication status	Published - 2014

Keywords

sacred space
rites and ceremonies
group identity

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Nugteren, A. / Sacred Space, Deity's Face : 'Sattvicification' as a strategy to set up and maintain the Shree Raam Mandir in Wijchen as a sacred site. Sacred Spaces and Contested Identities: Space and Ritual Dynamics in Europe and Africa. editor / Paul Post ; Philip Nel ; Walter van Beek. Trenton/London/Cape Town/Nairobi/Addis Ababa/Asmara/Ibadan/New Delhi : Africa World Press, 2014. pp. 331-344

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Nugteren, A 2014, Sacred Space, Deity's Face: 'Sattvicification' as a strategy to set up and maintain the Shree Raam Mandir in Wijchen as a sacred site. in P Post, P Nel & W van Beek (eds), Sacred Spaces and Contested Identities: Space and Ritual Dynamics in Europe and Africa., 18, Africa World Press, Trenton/London/Cape Town/Nairobi/Addis Ababa/Asmara/Ibadan/New Delhi, pp. 331-344.

Sacred Space, Deity's Face: 'Sattvicification' as a strategy to set up and maintain the Shree Raam Mandir in Wijchen as a sacred site. / Nugteren, A.
Sacred Spaces and Contested Identities: Space and Ritual Dynamics in Europe and Africa. ed. / Paul Post; Philip Nel; Walter van Beek. Trenton/London/Cape Town/Nairobi/Addis Ababa/Asmara/Ibadan/New Delhi: Africa World Press, 2014. p. 331-344 18.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

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Sacred Space, Deity's Face: 'Sattvicification' as a strategy to set up and maintain the Shree Raam Mandir in Wijchen as a sacred site

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