Die Legitimation von Entmenschlichung, Misogynie und Gewalt im Hinduismus

Autor(en)

Fabian Völker

Abstrakt

The number of crimes specifically targeting women, hierarchically lower birth- (varna) and occupational groups (jati) as well as 'casteless' (dalits; scheduled castes), and indigenous groups (adivasī; scheduled tribes) has increased continually over the last years in India. These acts of violence are to be considered systemic because of their quality and quantitative magnitude. The fact that they still pose an acute contemporary problem suggests a broader social consensus on the legitimacy of these acts within a superficially secularized Indian society that is based on inherited norms and values as well as premodern patterns of thought and action firmly rooted in traditionally Hindu ideas. The political rise of the "Indian People's Party"(BJP: Bharatīya Janata Partī) and its political recourse to Hinduism can be seen as a single, but nonetheless decisive factor that may causally explain the continuous aggravation of social antagonisms as well as the further intensification of the dynamics of violence. In order to shed light on these connections, the article traces the ideological foundations of this religiously legitimized dehumanization and violence as well as latent and open misogyny in Hinduism from its Vedic origins in the second millennium B. C. to the present.

Organisation(en)

Forschungszentrum Religion and Transformation, Institut für Interkulturelle Religionsphilosophie

Journal

Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft (Z f R)

Band

31

Seiten

30 - 70

Anzahl der Seiten

41

ISSN

0943-8610

Publikationsdatum

2023

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

603107 Ideologiekritik, 603904 Hinduismus, 603908 Religionsgeschichte, 603116 Politische Philosophie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Religious studies

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/dd9a4856-7c72-4709-b206-2189b7e928d3