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dc.contributor.authorAguilar, Mario I.
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-16T13:30:04Z
dc.date.available2019-01-16T13:30:04Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-14
dc.identifier.citationAguilar , M I 2019 , ' Kālighāt and ritual purity in Kolkata : a historical approach to generations in India ' , Sociology Mind , vol. 9 , no. 1 , pp. 114-126 . https://doi.org/10.4236/sm.2019.91007en
dc.identifier.issn2160-083X
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 255817668
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 1823967a-64fe-4dd8-b6e8-708d53038744
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-2035-5947/work/64697630
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/16880
dc.description.abstractMother Teresa of Kolkata remains one of the adopted figures of the old Indian capital in that after her arrival to be a teacher in a well-to-do school in Kolkata she took to the slums and the service of the “poorest of the poor” within an independent India. While there are several works published about her life after she opened Nirmal Hriday Ashram, a home for the destitute and the dying in Kolkata, less has been researched on the female Hindu symbolic associations of Kolkata with the feminine, as well as the challenges that Mother Teresa faced when as a Christian and as a woman decided to open Nirma Hriday Ashram. This paper examines the significance of Kālighāt for Kolkata and Hinduism and the issues of (in) purity that were triggered by Mother Teresa’s opening of a place for the dying within a property that previously was part of the Kālighāt. This paper suggests that a socio-historical understanding of Kolkata is central to any understanding of the work of the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata in later periods and their ongoing cooperation with Hindus and Muslims within Kolkata. Thus, ritual purity is not an isolated understanding within a synchronic moment but a generational challenge to ongoing diachronic changes within the City of Kolkata.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofSociology Minden
dc.rightsCopyright © 2019 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectIndia Kolkataen
dc.subjectKālighāten
dc.subjectMother Teresa of Kolkataen
dc.subjectNirmal Hriday Ashramen
dc.subjectProblem of generationsen
dc.subjectSociology of religionen
dc.subjectHinduismen
dc.subjectCatholic churchen
dc.subjectBL Religionen
dc.subjectBR Christianityen
dc.subjectHM Sociologyen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectSDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communitiesen
dc.subject.lccBLen
dc.subject.lccBRen
dc.subject.lccHMen
dc.titleKālighāt and ritual purity in Kolkata : a historical approach to generations in Indiaen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Global Law and Governanceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Divinityen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.4236/sm.2019.91007
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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