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The Domestication of ‘Hindu’ Asceticism and the Religious Making of South and Southeast Asia

Description du projet

Explorer l’évolution, les racines et les contextes de l’hindouisme

Avec plus d’un milliard d’adeptes dans le monde, l’hindouisme est la troisième plus grande religion. Elle possède une histoire riche et des traditions, des rituels, des pratiques et des systèmes théologiques et philosophiques variés. Cependant, en raison de la diversité et de l’inaccessibilité des sources historiques essentielles, elle reste peu étudiée. Pour combler ce manque de connaissances, le projet DHARMA, financé par l’UE, étudiera l’histoire de l’hindouisme dans une perspective comparative. En se concentrant sur l’épigraphie de l’Asie du Sud et du Sud‑Est pendant la période allant du VIe au XIIIe siècle, DHARMA examinera des inscriptions, des manuscrits et des artefacts archéologiques, en utilisant la technologie numérique pour les contextualiser et les analyser. Les résultats seront diffusés pour présenter la richesse et la complexité des contextes régionaux en interaction, notamment la religion, l’État et la société.

Objectif

Censuses report over a billion “Hindus” in the world today. But what is “Hinduism”? In answer, many accounts describe the doctrinal evolutions of various quite different currents of thought. To try to reply using material and social evidence is difficult because so many vital primary sources for institutional history remain inaccessible.
What were the material foundations of the constellation of religious movements today classed as “Hindu”? How have different forms of religious agency shaped the institutional and religious landscape of a large sweep of Asia? How did such “Hindu” traditions, associated primarily with the ideas and practices of ascetics questing for liberation, become institutionally rooted? And what were the repercussions of the widespread patronage of pious foundations?
Three types of sources will be examined: inscriptions, manuscripts, archaeological remains. Inscriptions are crucial because most of our historical knowledge of early South and Southeast Asia is based on epigraphy. We will explore, mine and diffuse these sources with the tools of digital humanities (rich mark-up of proper-names, technical terms, geodata, etc.). In order to contextualise epigraphy, unpublished prescriptive texts and new archaeological data will be adduced. Our goal is to identify and to map regional and interregional patterns of patronage. The actors are varied: “lettrés”, holy men and priestly intermediaries, as well as their patrons, often grandees of the state; but also cenobitic communities with their statutes, their libraries, their educational activities, and their incipient bureaucracy.
Through a comparative approach (concentrating on “Hinduism”, but also considering the so-called “heretic” religions Buddhism and Jainism), and in a broad range of regional contexts, we shall attempt to uncover with unprecedented historical depth the complex interplay of religion, state and society in a formative period, the “Śaiva Age”, between the 6th and 13th centuries.

Champ scientifique

CORDIS classe les projets avec EuroSciVoc, une taxonomie multilingue des domaines scientifiques, grâce à un processus semi-automatique basé sur des techniques TLN.

Régime de financement

ERC-SyG - Synergy grant

Institution d’accueil

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 2 557 325,25
Adresse
RUE MICHEL ANGE 3
75794 Paris
France

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Région
Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris
Type d’activité
Research Organisations
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Coût total
€ 2 557 325,25

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