3. Post-War Religious Dynamics: A Case-study from Nepal
Religious Super-diversity and Peacebuilding across Asia and its Diasporas - Alessandro Saggioro
Davide Torri [+]
Sapienza University, Rome
Davide Torri is Associate Professor of Himalayan Religions at the Department of History Anthropology Religions and Performing Arts, Sapienza University of Rome. He completed his PhD at University of Napoli “L’Orientale” in 2009, and he has been teaching and researching at the Universities of Chester (UK), Heidelberg and Bochum (Germany). Vice-President of ISARS (International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism), he has been carrying out research mainly in Nepal and the Himalayas, with a focus on indigenous religions.
Description
This chapter takes into account the topic of religious pluralism and religious diversity in modern and contemporary Nepal. From a religious perspective, the modern and contemporary history of Nepal can be characterized by two diverse, and opposite, tendencies: a process towards centralization (1768-1991) followed by a process towards differentiation (1991-ongoing).