Title
Precarious Life and the Ethics of Care: Subjectivity in An Indian Religious Phenomenon
Document Type
Review Article
Publication Date
12-1-2011
Abstract
This article relates certain figures of the subject in an emergent Indian pilgrimage. On the basis of ethnographic research and 15 in-depth interviews, I show that these religious subjectivities, phenomenologically immersed in highly precarious material conditions, are radically relational. Observations on the pilgrimage (en)counter the cognitivist assumptions of a body of scholarly opinion on contemporary religious practice. The analyst's attention to pilgrimage rituals and narratives traverses sociological, phenomenological, and psychoanalytic theories, and is, thereby, drawn to important questions of self, ethics, and time.
DOI
10.1080/14755610.2011.633535
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Singh, Vikash, "Precarious Life and the Ethics of Care: Subjectivity in An Indian Religious Phenomenon" (2011). Department of Sociology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 39.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/sociology-facpubs/39
Published Citation
Singh, V. (2011). Precarious life and the ethics of care: Subjectivity in an Indian religious phenomenon. Culture and Religion, 12(4), 419-440.