ABSTRACT

The paper is based on ethnographic observations of religious practices among Muslim return migrants from the Gulf, and among Hindu return migrants from the United States. The goal of these observations was to understand the ways that diasporic cultures have transformed these migrants’ religious practices after they return to India. We focus on the city of Hyderabad, in South India, with its long history of diverse Muslim communities, and recent histories of migration and reverse migration to the Gulf region in Western Asia, as well as recent transformations through the growth of gated communities that have attracted Hindu reverse migrants from the United States. We focus on women’s engagement with religious cultural practices and the ways in which religion and gender are restructured through the process of migration and reverse migration.

摘要

该论文是基于人种学的观察结果，这些观察结果是海湾回教移民和美国回教印度教徒的宗教习俗。这些观察的目的是要了解流离失所的文化如何使这些移民返回印度后改变他们的宗教习俗。我们关注印度南部的海得拉巴市，其悠久的穆斯林社区历史悠久，以及近来移民至西亚海湾地区的移民和反向移民的历史，以及通过封闭式社区的发展而进行的近期转型吸引了来自美国的印度裔反向移民。我们专注于妇女参与宗教文化习俗，以及通过移民和反向移民的过程重组宗教和性别的方式。