"Prayer & power in the Sangh Parivar" a talk by Dr. Kalyani Menon at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 9th May 2013

Time : 3:00 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : Seminar Room, First Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Seminar on 'Prayer and power in the Sangh Parivar' by Dr. Kalyani Menon, DePaul University, USA.

Abstract : This paper examines how religious expression, often perceived as distinct from the world of politics, provides a means through which the Sangh Parivar disseminates its ideological norms and intervenes in the public sphere. Analyzing essays, prayers, and songs published by women’s organizations in the Sangh Parivar, as well as public rituals organized by them in Delhi, the speaker examines how women activists use prevalent Hindu images and practices to appeal to new recruits and to construct their exclusionary community. It also suggests that it is precisely because religion is central to how people construct themselves and imagine their worlds that it has become an important form of the political in modern India, and in the world today.

Speaker : Dr. Kalyani Devaki Menon is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University, Chicago, USA. Her book, Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2010 (Social Science Press 2012).

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