This session (in French), co-organised by the Laboratoire d’Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative (LESC) and the Centre for Himalayan Studies (CEH), will take place at LESC (MAE, Université Paris Nanterre) in room F308. Our guest speaker is
"From renouncing the world to environmentalism in sectarian Hinduism in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand (India)"
Johan KRIEG proposes several texts to prepare for the workshop. These texts are accessible [here]->https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ffz2rkuybh5bd6s/AAD7RylxpqJWoRNxN8lLK66_a?dl=0) ]
Alley, K.D., 1998. Idioms of Degeneracy : Assessing Ganga’s Purity and Pollution. In Nelson L.E. (ed.), Purifying the Earthly Body of God. Religion and Ecology in Hindu India. New York : State University of New York Press, pp. 297-330.
Nelson, Lance E., “Ecology”, in : Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Edited by : Knut A. Jacobsen, Helene Basu, Angelika Malinar, Vasudha Narayanan. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2212-5019_beh_COM_9000000157 - First published online : 2012.
Clark, Matthew, “Akhāṛās : Warrior Ascetics”, in : Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Edited by : Knut A. Jacobsen, Helene Basu, Angelika Malinar, Vasudha Narayanan. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2212-5019_beh_COM_9000000002 - First published online : 2012.
Nagarajan Vijaya Rettakudi. 1998. The Earth as Goddess Bhu Devi : Toward a theory of “embedded ecologies” in Folk Hinduism. In Nelson L.E. (ed.), Purifying the Earthly Body of God. Religion and Ecology in Hindu India. New York : State University of New York Press, pp. 269-295.
White, Lynn. 1974. The historical roots of our ecologic crisis. In Spring, David & Spring, Eileen & Spring, David (eds), Ecology and religion in history, New York : Harper & Row. http://www.siena.edu/ellard/historical_roots_of_our_ecologic.htm