{"title":"Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place\u003c\/strong\u003e invites readers to explore the intricate connections between faith, geography, and identity. This series delves into how religious beliefs shape and are shaped by physical and social environments, offering a nuanced understanding of spirituality in varied contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEngaging with themes across history, culture, and human experience, the collection appeals to those interested in the interplay between sacred spaces and everyday life. It is a vital resource for readers seeking to deepen their insight into the spatial dimensions of religion and cultural expression.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"struggles-for-hindu-sacred-space-in-the-netherlands-by-priya-swamy-9781350372566","title":"Struggles for Hindu Sacred Space in the Netherlands","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book asks us to consider what is absent, rather than what is present, when studying religions. Priya Swamy argues that absent religious spaces are in themselves abstract locations that painfully memorialise feelings of shame, oppression and marginalisation. She shows that these ‘traumas of absence’—the complex, entwined and emotional responses to absent spaces—can be articulated through mob violence and destruction, but also anticolonial struggles or human rights issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis study focuses on the absence of temples across the global Hindu diaspora, taking the tumultuous narrative of the Devi Dhaam community in Amsterdam Southeast as a central location to detail the over thirty-year struggle to build a Hindu temple in a neighbourhood of vibrant mosques and churches. In 2010, their makeshift space was pulled away from them, provoking tears among elderly devotees, rage among board members and devastation in the wider community. Leaving their goddess with no place to live, some devotees feared for the dangerous repercussions that would follow from uprooting a divine presence from its home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy exploring the ways in which the trauma of absent religious spaces has become a formative aspect of localised but also globalised Hindu identity, \u003cem\u003eStruggles for Hindu Sacred Space in the Netherlands\u003c\/em\u003e rethinks the way that empty lots, piles of rubble and abandoned buildings around the world are themselves powerful monuments to the trauma of absent temple spaces that mobilise campaigns for Hindu spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934251958508,"sku":"9781350372566","price":141.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350372566-struggles-for-hindu-sacred-space-in-the-netherlands.jpg?v=1783907971"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/series-bloomsbury-studies-in-religion-space-and-place.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}