« Ils ont transformé la divinité Yuma en Dieu ! »: Recompositions religieuses et dissensions chez les Limbu du Sikkim

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    Abstract

    This article focuses on recent changes in Limbu rituals in Sikkim, and especially the disagreement between a new religious movement called Yumaism—centred on the cult of a young woman considered a reincarnation of the Limbu domestic deity Yuma—and those who think that only shamanism is representative of the Limbu tradition. This disagreement reflects not only divergent conceptions of Limbu religious identity and of the definition and role of ethnic boundaries, but also varying valorisations of Limbu autochthony in Sikkim. Recalling Yuma’s association with Nepalese power and with the Hinduisation of the Limbu in north-eastern Nepal highlighted by Philippe Sagant, this situation reveals a new form of opposition to a renewed cult of Yuma, illustrating a tension between the Limbu’s attachment to their territory, and the connection to wider religious and political networks.
    Titel in Übersetzung“They turned the deity Yuma into a god!”: Religious reconstructions and dissensions among the Limbu of Sikkim
    OriginalspracheFranzösisch
    Fachzeitschriftateliers d'anthropologie
    Jahrgang49
    DOIs
    PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2021

    ÖFOS 2012

    • 504008 Ethnographie
    • 603909 Religionswissenschaft

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