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Janabai: from a House Maid to Goddess: New Trends in Contemporary Hinduism
 
PIIS086919080001854-6-1
DOI10.31857/S086919080001854-6
Publication type Article
Status Published
Authors
Irina Glushkova 
Affiliation: Institute of Oriental studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
Journal nameVostok. Afro-Aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost
EditionIssue 5
Pages113-124
Abstract

Drawing from the field work in Western India, this paper focuses on modern manifestations of Hinduism confirming its flexibility in responding to the challenges of current socio-political context. The Indian state Maharashtra is widely known for its god Vithoba / Vitthal / Pandurang, a regional incarnation of Krishna. The main temple of Vithoba located in the town of Pandharpur on the Bhima River is a sacred destination of a grand annual pilgrimage carried out simultaneously by separate processions. One of them is formed around the symbolic pādukās (the footprints of a divine figure) of a medieval poetess whose poems’ final verse acknowledges her authorship by self-introduction with such names as Jani, Jani-maid, and Namdev’s Jani etc. By the beginning of the twenty first century, her name became augmented with the spiritual definition of ‘sant’, i.e. an exemplary spiritual individual, and the honorific postposition of ‘bāī’ ‘a woman’. Nowadays Sant Janabai has acquired individual places of worship and is treated as a genius loci and an embodiment of caste pride. 

Keywordscurrent Hinduism, Vithoba, Janabai, varkari, new cult, les lieux de mémoire, genius loci, caste
Received26.10.2018
Publication date28.10.2018
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