in recent times, Nepalis have altered, adapted, and negotiated religious practices and ideas, and, even more recently, how they have sought to understand, implement, resist, and adapt ideas of secularism. We do not assume that ‘secular’ and ‘religious’ are pre-existent or self-evident categories, nor do we seek the answers in texts or doctrines. When asking questions about how people understand and mobilize around ideas of religion and secularism, it will become evident that in the Nepali context the notions of ethnicity and modernity cannot be avoided either. This chapter shows that the concepts of religion, secularism, modernity, and ethnicity are constituted and transformed in relation to each other.
Letizia, C., Gellner, D. (2016). ‘Introduction: Religion and Identities in Post-Panchayat Nepal’. In D.N. Gellner, S.L. Hausner, C. Letizia (a cura di), Religion, Secularism and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal (pp. 1-32). New Delhi : Oxford University Press.
‘Introduction: Religion and Identities in Post-Panchayat Nepal’
LETIZIA, CHIARASecondo
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2016
Abstract
in recent times, Nepalis have altered, adapted, and negotiated religious practices and ideas, and, even more recently, how they have sought to understand, implement, resist, and adapt ideas of secularism. We do not assume that ‘secular’ and ‘religious’ are pre-existent or self-evident categories, nor do we seek the answers in texts or doctrines. When asking questions about how people understand and mobilize around ideas of religion and secularism, it will become evident that in the Nepali context the notions of ethnicity and modernity cannot be avoided either. This chapter shows that the concepts of religion, secularism, modernity, and ethnicity are constituted and transformed in relation to each other.
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