New Roles for Indigenous Women in an Indian Eco-Religious Movement

New Roles for Indigenous Women in an Indian Eco-Religious Movement

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This article aims to study how a movement aimed at the assertion of indigenous religiosity in India has resulted in the empowerment of the women who participate in it.As part of the movement, devotees of the indigenous Earth Goddess, who are mostly indigenous women, experience possession trances in sacred natural sites which they have started visiting regularly.The movement aims to assert indigenous religiosity in India and to emphasize how it is different Sit Stand Mats from Hinduism—as a result the ecological articulations of indigenous religiosity have intensified.

The movement has a strong political Ostivone character and it explicitly demands that indigenous Indian religiosity should be officially recognized by the inclusion of a new category for it in the Indian census.By way of their participation in this movement, indigenous Indian women are becoming figures of religious authority, overturning cultural taboos pertaining to their societal and religious roles, and are also becoming empowered to initiate ecological conservation and restoration efforts.