Jones, Demelza (2016). Being Tamil, being Hindu:Tamil migrants’ negotiations of the absence of Tamil Hindu spaces in the West Midlands and South West of England. Religion, 46 (1), pp. 53-74.
Abstract
This paper considers the religious practices of Tamil Hindus who have settled in the West Midlands and South West of England in order to explore how devotees of a specific ethno-regional Hindu tradition with a well-established UK infrastructure in the site of its adherents’ population density adapt their religious practices in settlement areas which lack this infrastructure. Unlike the majority of the UK Tamil population who live in the London area, the participants in this study did not have ready access to an ethno-religious infrastructure of Tamil-orientated temples and public rituals. The paper examines two means by which this absence was addressed as well as the intersections and negotiations of religion and ethnicity these entailed: firstly, Tamil Hindus’ attendance of temples in their local area which are orientated towards a broadly imagined Hindu constituency or which cater to a non-Tamil ethno-linguistic or sectarian community; and, secondly, through the ‘DIY’ performance of ethnicised Hindu ritual in non-institutional settings.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2015.1027968 |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Sociology and Policy College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Centre for Critical Inquiry into Society and Culture (CCISC) |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Tamils,Hinduism,migration,ethnicity,religion,ritual,Sociology and Political Science |
Publication ISSN: | 0048-721X |
Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2024 15:22 |
Date Deposited: | 22 Jun 2015 08:20 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2016 |
Published Online Date: | 2015-06-15 |
Accepted Date: | 2015-03-06 |
Submitted Date: | 2012-10-04 |
Authors: |
Jones, Demelza
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