The Research Seminar Series in Religious Studies and Theology invites you to a seminar with Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger, Århus University, "Indian tropes and practices in a globalized world – the tension between cultural appropriation and re-appropriation, appreciation and rejection".
Abstract:
I have in most of my academic life done fieldwork among Hindus outside India (Sri Lanka) and in migrant settings as in England, Kenya, Mauritius and Denmark. I have mainly focused on the adaptability of the Hindu tradition and how it has adapted to new settings, but I have also focused on the role of Hindu women as the bearer of tradition and how the second or third generation of Hindus are negotiating their tradition.
Parallel to this interest I have also been studying the circulation of ideas and practices between the so-called East (India) and the so-called West and written articles on the female guru Mata Amritanandamayi (“The hugging Mother”) and how she among other modern gurus has become globalized with devotees all over the world. I have also written on karma as an example of this circulation of ideas but mainly on the growing interest in yoga – an ongoing project.
