{"id":111797,"date":"2022-03-19T19:26:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T18:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/?p=111797"},"modified":"2022-03-19T19:26:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T18:26:31","slug":"new-roles-for-indigenous-women-in-an-indian-eco-religious-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/documentation-centre\/new-roles-for-indigenous-women-in-an-indian-eco-religious-movement","title":{"rendered":"New Roles for Indigenous Women in an Indian Eco-Religious Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article aims to study how a movement aimed at the assertion of indigenous religiosity in<br \/>\nIndia has resulted in the empowerment of the women who participate in it. As part of the movement,<br \/>\ndevotees of the indigenous Earth Goddess, who are mostly indigenous women, experience possession<br \/>\ntrances in sacred natural sites which they have started visiting regularly. The movement aims to<br \/>\nassert indigenous religiosity in India and to emphasize how it is different from Hinduism\u2014as a result<br \/>\nthe ecological articulations of indigenous religiosity have intensified. The movement has a strong<br \/>\npolitical character and it explicitly demands that indigenous Indian religiosity should be officially<br \/>\nrecognized by the inclusion of a new category for it in the Indian census. By way of their participation<br \/>\nin this movement, indigenous Indian women are becoming figures of religious authority, overturning<br \/>\ncultural taboos pertaining to their societal and religious roles, and are also becoming empowered to<br \/>\ninitiate ecological conservation and restoration efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article aims to study how a movement aimed at the assertion of indigenous religiosity in India has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":111786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,121],"tags":[333,236],"class_list":["post-111797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-documentation-centre","category-information-and-sensitization","tag-ancestral-traditions","tag-indigenous-peoples","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111798,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111797\/revisions\/111798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}