In the Shadows of Death: An existential approach to mortality in the Sinja valley of western Nepal

Poletti, Samuele

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“…Fluctuating states of being are hence not to be seen as different moods of an individual. Rather, personhood appears as a kaleidoscope of situational selves heavily dependent on circumstances (see Poletti 2019Poletti , 2020. This points to a less monolithic understanding of the self in Sinja, in line with what has been noted by others throughout South Asia (eg Ewing 1990: 252, Lecomte-Tilouine 2015, Levy 1998: 327-28, McHugh 1989.…”

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A Promise of Unconditional Acceptance: Conversion to Christianity and the struggle for being in Sinja, Nepal

Poletti¹

2021

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The presence of Christianity in Nepal can be traced back to the eighteenth century. It is only from the 1950s onwards, however, when the country formally opened its borders after about two centuries of self-declared isolation, that Christianity started having a significant impact on Nepali society. Ever since then, Nepali Christian congregationsthe vast majority of which are Pentecostal/charismatic -have grown at an extraordinary rate, flourishing over the last few decades even in remote areas such as the Sinja Valley, in the north-western district of Jumla. 1 The reason for this astounding progression appears to be related to the unprecedented political and social changes that followed the civil war -a climate of widespread instability and uncertainty that

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A Promise of Unconditional Acceptance: Conversion to Christianity and the struggle for being in Sinja, Nepal

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2021

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The Good, the Dead, and the Other: Chronicles of a Nepali Phantasmicide

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2020

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Is an experience the private matter of an inner individual self? The phantasmicide committed by Laxmi in Sinja, Nepal, with the assistance of his uncle suggests otherwise. The perception of a wandering spirit in Nepal, like that of a dragon in the Middle Ages, demonstrates how subjective experiences may sometimes acquire independence in the blurred margins where reality merges with imagination. This line of reasoning finds support in the indigenous view of personhood, according to which a person actualizes as a multitude of situational souls emerging in reaction to circumstances—circumstances to which these reactions may also be pinned. Instead of an outward projection of psychological life, the intersubjective life of the spirit coprotagonist of this affair encourages envisaging experiences as partially independent phenomena capable of acting back upon the experiencing self and being acted upon in turn as other free‐standing subjects. Highlighting the mutual inextricability of private interiority and worldly events, the chronicle of this Nepali phantasmicide fosters thus an alternative to psychological transference pointing toward an Intersubjective‐I that avoids constraining self and world within rigid boundaries. [intersubjectivity, experience, transference, situationality, personhood, Nepal]

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In the Shadows of Death: An existential approach to mortality in the Sinja valley of western Nepal

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A Promise of Unconditional Acceptance: Conversion to Christianity and the struggle for being in Sinja, Nepal

A Promise of Unconditional Acceptance: Conversion to Christianity and the struggle for being in Sinja, Nepal

The Good, the Dead, and the Other: Chronicles of a Nepali Phantasmicide

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