Article: Agonistic intimacy and moral aspiration in popular Hinduism: A study in the political theology of the neighbor
The old question whether there can be political theology in non-monotheistic religions continues to be explored - and articles continue to be published in the most unexpected places: Bhrigupati Singh (Harvard), "Agonistic intimacy and moral aspiration in popular Hinduism: A study in the political theology of the neighbor" ("American Ethnologist", 38 [3], August 2011: pp. 430-50).
Quote: "I analyze the arrival of a 'new' god, the oral-epic deity Tejaji, in the villages of Shahbad (Rajasthan, India) and the modes of relatedness this divine migration expresses between neighboring castes and tribes. ... I locate spiritual-moral aspirations not necessarily in 'otherworldliness' but as a political theology of the neighbor, conceiving of the neighbor as human and nonhuman (as deity, spirit, and animal), in ways that widen the definition of “the political” and of 'theos.'"
The old question whether there can be political theology in non-monotheistic religions continues to be explored - and articles continue to be published in the most unexpected places: Bhrigupati Singh (Harvard), "Agonistic intimacy and moral aspiration in popular Hinduism: A study in the political theology of the neighbor" ("American Ethnologist", 38 [3], August 2011: pp. 430-50).
Quote: "I analyze the arrival of a 'new' god, the oral-epic deity Tejaji, in the villages of Shahbad (Rajasthan, India) and the modes of relatedness this divine migration expresses between neighboring castes and tribes. ... I locate spiritual-moral aspirations not necessarily in 'otherworldliness' but as a political theology of the neighbor, conceiving of the neighbor as human and nonhuman (as deity, spirit, and animal), in ways that widen the definition of “the political” and of 'theos.'"
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