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Negotiating Linguistic and Religious Diversity: A Tamil Hindu Temple in Australia

Negotiating Linguistic and Religious Diversity: A Tamil Hindu Temple in Australia

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

LinguisticsHinduism

ISBN10: 1032115815
ISBN13: 9781032115818
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 6 2022
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Diversity is a buzzword of our times and yet the extent of religious diversity in Western societies is generally misconceived. This ground-breaking research draws attention to the journey of one migrant religious institution in an era of religious superdiversity.

Based on a sociolinguistic ethnography in a Tamil Saivite temple in Australia, the book explores the challenges for the institution in maintaining its linguistic and cultural identity in a new context. The temple is faced with catering for devotees of diverse ethnicities, languages, and religious interpretations; not to mention divergent views between different generations of migrants who share ethnicity and language. At the same time, core members of the temple seek to continue religious and cultural practices according to the traditions of their homelands in Sri Lanka, a country where their identity and language has been under threat.

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