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Hinduism: Religion or Culture?

Hinduism is a 3000 years old religion. Glasgow than in India? Is Hindu Mandir
Millions of people follow Hinduism. able to represent India and create a
However, there are no particular rules in sense of home among the worshippers? We
it. With the immigration wave in 1950s were curious whether people were
Hinduism became an international culture satisfied with the appearance of the
and religion.There are two Hindu temples temple and whether the experience of
in New York. The Geeta temple Ashram is a worship would be different if the
traditional orange and white marble North building was different? We also looked at
Indian building, which was built in 1972. power relations in terms of gender
It reflects the wealth of the first wave differences and differences between older
immigrants. The Hindu temple society has and younger people. During the fieldwork
been criticized of putting only wealthy process I sometimes felt like a child who
people on Geeta's board of trustees. The is learning to speak. When children learn
Divya Dham temple was partly built as a a language they first enter the stage of
response to these class tensions, as the asking endless amount of "what is that?"
new less questions. In this way children obtain
affluent immigrants began to establish vocabulary, which then allows children to
their own sacred spaces. Divya Dham is proceed to the "why?" stage.Children
located in former electronics factory and connect the underlying patterns of
its main deity (god): Vaisno Devi, meanings in their environment through
"appeals to people of all responding to any sentence with another
castes and walks of life" back in India. "but why?" question, and in this way
We were interested in seeing whether we children learn to
could discover a trace of understand their own culture.Similarly I
similar class tensions within Hindu first obtained the knowledge about the
Mandir.However, our main focus was on names of objects and rituals in the new
investigating the issues of identity and environment through "what?" questions,
belonging, which Hindu Mandir may have to after which I was ready to 'hunt' people
offer for its members. There were four with my exhaustive lists of "why?"
members in our research group. Our questions, in order to reveal meaning in
project concentrated on the use of space the environment. The experience of doing
in the Hindu Mandir and we looked at fieldwork was very inspiring; as doing
what does the space mean to the people research was not anymore just about
who use it. We observed the form of reading theoretical
rituals and symbolism, which are literature, but all the theory became
performed in the Hindu Mandir. We were alive once you start looking for patterns
curious about the consequences of having in the observed environmentThe article
people with was produced by the member of
various cultural backgrounds using the Sharon White is a senior writer and
same worshipping space. Would people find writers consultant at term papers. Get
this problematic? Is the feeling or some useful tips for thesis and buy term
experience of worshipping different in papers .




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