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Religion, Colonialism, Diaspora: The Role of the Hindu Swaminarayan Sect in Indian Migration to Africa and the World

abstract: A new sect of Swaminarayan Hinduism emerged in the late eightieth century. This sect rapidly grew into a global organization due their highly structuralized nature. Fascinatingly, the new sect was able to create the feeling of home away from home in multiple countries. Through the establishments of mandirs, Hindu place of worship, practitioners were able to solidify the feeling of home away from home. Through books, magazine articles and letters the evidence of the new sect creating this feeling is overwhelming. Diaspora theory is woven within the thesis due to the global nature of the sect. This thesis uses a broad definition of diaspora to encompass the change in literature due to the ability of one to maintain close ties to their old homeland. The Swaminarayan sect treaded through diaspora by assimilating to their new homeland all the while keeping a close tie with their old homeland. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Religious Studies 2016

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:40836
Date January 2016
ContributorsPatel, Amisha (Author), Bruner, Jason (Advisor), Bennett, Gaymon (Committee member), Henn, Alexander (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMasters Thesis
Format62 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved

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