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Det religiösa självet i praktik vid ett hinduiskt gudinnetempel: Ett kulturpsykologiskt angreppssätt för religionspsykologi
2004 (Swedish)Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)Alternative title
The Religious Self in Practice at a Hindu Goddess-Temple : A Cultural Psychological Approach for the Psychology of Religion (English)
Abstract [en]

The main objective of this dissertation is to contribute to the psychology of religion in two ways. First, it adds to theory development in the field, and second, it provides an original field study of Hindu everyday-religiosity. This dual-focused objective is met through the development of theory for a practice-oriented cultural psychology of religion, grounded in a study of a Hindu goddess-temple in Banaras (Varanasi), India.

The cultural psychological approach makes use of Bourdieu’s concept “habitus”. It is argued that employing this concept in theory development overcomes a dualism of culture and self, and provides an alternative to previous models in the psychology of religion that interpret religiosity in either intrapsychical or intersubjective terms. Further, it is argued that the concept can interpret culture-specific features in Hindu religiosity, such as an emphasis on practical activity and on a non-dualistic view of person and world.

A model of a “Religious Self in Practice” is outlined, which integrates features from theories of “self as narrative practice” and Bell’s concept “ritualization”. The religious self is seen as a construction of relational and practical processes, a product of individuals participating in cultural practices of religiosity, manifested in a specific local site. Specific persons master the pre-given conventions of religious self-construction in individual, creative ways.

The study argues that a temple is such a site in a Hindu context. Ethnography is used to study the cultural practices of the religious self at the site, and life story interview to study a sample of seven individual ways of mastering these practices. The study analyzes sacred status at the temple as being an interplay of individuals’ devotions and common practices of religiosity. This practical logic is also identified in the life stories of the devotees as narrative practice of the religious self in relation to the Goddess.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Religionspsykologi , 2004. , p. 299
Keywords [en]
Psychology of religion, Psychology of religion, Cultural psychology, Religious self, Practice, Habitus, Ritualization, Self-narrative, Ethnography, Life story, Hindu religiosity, Temple-ritual, Goddess-cult
Keywords [sv]
Banaras, Mahishasurmardini Durga, Religionspsykologi, Banaras, Mahishasurmardini Durga, Religionspsykologi
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Religious Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-12985ISBN: 91-506-1784-2 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-12985DiVA, id: diva2:454598
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2004-12-17, Auditorium minus, Gustavianum, Akademigatan 3, 14:15
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Available from: 2004-11-25 Created: 2011-11-07 Last updated: 2017-12-27Bibliographically approved

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