Religious Encounters: Empowerment through Tamil Outcaste Folk Drumming

Sherinian, Zoe

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“…Jawabannya, Hindu ingin mengajarkan tentang proses falsifikasi, atau suatu kebenaran (baca Veda) tidak pernah stagnan, kebenaran itu selalu bertransformasi dalam setiap periode, tetapi tidak menghilangkan esensi. Maka, reformasi waktu dari yang awalnya bercorak klasik sampai dalam realitas modern, tidak akan mengubah esensi kebenaran itu sendiri, tetapi sudut pandangnya saja yang berubah, karena beradaptasi dengan fenomena yang sedang dihadapi (Sahoo 2005;Tennet 2003…”

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Sanathana-Nuthana, Kerangka Pemikiran Agama Hindu Yang Mengajarkan Paradigma Erklaren Dan Verstehen

Agus Nova

2023

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Agama Hndu sebagai agama tertua memiliki latar belakang historis yang panjang, dan memiliki akar filosofis yang mendalam. Keberadaannya yang ‘menghidupi’ empat zaman, yakni Tretha Yuga, Kretha Yuga, Dvapara Yuga dan Kali Yuga diafirmasi oleh umat manusia. Yang menjadi pertanyaan adalah bagaimana Hindu sebagai agama paling awal diturunkan dan diwahyukan tetapi bereksistensi dalam lintas ruang-waktu yang heterogen. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan analisis wacana (discourse analysis), tulisan ini berupaya untuk mengkaji salah satu teks teologis, yakni Sarasamuccaya. Melalui analisis teks ini, penulis ingin mengkaji alasan atau kompendium apa yang menjadi faktor keberadaan Hindu sebagai agama ataupun sistem filsafat, bisa bertahan sampai saat ini. Sanathana dan Nuthana menjadi aliran berpikir atau paradigma, sekaligus menjadi salah satu alasan keberadaan agama Hindu bisa hadir sampai saat ini. Sanathana yang beresensi universal mengajarkan paham yang berlaku disemua zaman, serta dimensi waktu. Nuthana yang berarti ‘muda’ mengajarkan ajaran pluralistik, terutama tentang upaya menginternalisasikan ajaran Veda, dalam realitas waktu dan ruang yang berbeda, tanpa menghilangkan keunikan dimensi tiap zaman, dan tanpa terdisrupsi dari ajaran Veda. Pada akhirnya, Sanathana dan Nuthana yang mengajarkan aspek absolutisme dan relativisme, menjadi salah satu faktor bereksistensinya agama Hindu sampai zaman Kali Yuga ini.Kata kunci: Sanathana, Nuthana, Veda, universalisme, pluralisme

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Sanathana-Nuthana, Kerangka Pemikiran Agama Hindu Yang Mengajarkan Paradigma Erklaren Dan Verstehen

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“…My intent is to show how a broadening of Viswanath's scholarly methods and her historical and relational scope can create a more complex picture of this history and why that matters. Specifically, I will show how including oral history rather than pursuing a singular focus on discourse from archival evidence and drawing a more complex picture of mission/Dalit encounters allows internal disaggregation in mission studies and the identification of ritual action as a means to strengthen and support Dalit agency (Sherinian 2017).…”

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A Roundtable on Rupa Viswanath'sThe Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern Indiaand the Study of Caste

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Chandra²,

Ramberg³

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Mod. Asian Stud.

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In this roundtable discussion, five scholars of modern India with diverse methodological training examine aspects of Rupa Viswanath's 2014 book, The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India, and assess its arguments and contributions. This book has made strong challenges to the scholarly consensus on the nature of caste in India, arguing that, in the Madras presidency under the British, caste functioned as a form of labour control of the lowest orders and, in this roundtable, she calls colonial Madras a ‘slave society’. The scholars included here examine that contention and the major subsidiary arguments on which it is based. Uday Chandra identifies The Pariah Problem with a new social history of caste and Dalitness. Brian K. Pennington links the ‘religionization’ of caste that Viswanath identifies to the contemporary Hindu right's concerns for religious sentiment and authenticity. Lucinda Ramberg takes up Viswanath's account of the constitution of a public that excluded the Dalit to inquire further about the gendered nature of that public and the private realm it simultaneously generated. Zoe Sherinian calls attention to Viswanath's characterization of missionary opposition to social equality for Dalits and examines missionary and Dalit discourses that stand apart from those that Viswanath studied. Joel Lee extends some of Viswanath's claims about the Madras presidency by showing strong parallels to social practices in colonial North India. Finally, Viswanath's own response addresses the assessments of her colleagues.

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Uṟumi Mēḷam: a musical sanctuary for at-risk Tamil youth in Singapore

Lai

2020

Ethnomusicology Forum

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This article investigates why ur  umi mēl ams are successful in empowering Singaporean Tamil Hindu youths and keeping them away from gangs and crime. Drawing on oral history resources, historical newspaper articles, and ethnographic data from field research conducted in Singapore, Malaysia, and Tamil Nadu (South India), I explore the chain of events and official narratives that associated ur  umi mēl ams with moral panic, before then considering how musicking in an ur  umi mēl am appeals to Singaporean Tamil Hindu youths. Finally, the article examines approaches adopted by ur  umi mēl am to engage their young artists so that they feel purposeful and accepted by the group. Building on music and youth empowerment discourse, I argue that ur  umi mēl am has an enormous potential as an activity to engage and empower at-risk Tamil youths.

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Religious Encounters: Empowerment through Tamil Outcaste Folk Drumming

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Sanathana-Nuthana, Kerangka Pemikiran Agama Hindu Yang Mengajarkan Paradigma Erklaren Dan Verstehen

Sanathana-Nuthana, Kerangka Pemikiran Agama Hindu Yang Mengajarkan Paradigma Erklaren Dan Verstehen

A Roundtable on Rupa Viswanath'sThe Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern Indiaand the Study of Caste

Uṟumi Mēḷam: a musical sanctuary for at-risk Tamil youth in Singapore

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