What Is It Like to Make a Map? Criteria and Rationale for Mapping “Religions” Since the end of August 2005, the name “Katrina” has been widely used to indicate a specific form of “windstorm,” a form that was delineated, shaped, and carved out from a much wider system of atmospheric air circulation that is conventionally classified, labelled, and hierarchically organised as “storm,” “thunderstorm,” “tornado,” “hurricane,” “cyclone,” “monsoon,” etc.Just as “Katrina” is the name given to a specific and isolated case of air flow and dynamic pressure called a “hurricane,” the label “Hinduism” is the conventional semantic aggregative functor that,2 since being coined in English usage (from 1750 onward), has been extensively adopted to address and reify a vast array of different “climates,” atmospheres, and contexts, which are all vaguely but tightly bound to geospatial locating factors. Today, in fact, media, columnists, and political influencers of various kinds continue to reiterate that “Hinduism” is “a religion with Indian origins.”Mapping religions within such a simplistic rational pattern seems to be a rather easy task: It merely requires reporting the location, in space and time, of an identifiable “object.” Seen from this perspective, in order to describe the historical situation of a “religious object” called “Hinduism” in Italy, it would be sufficient to assume that such an “object,” after it departed from India and reached American and European territories, landed on the northern Mediterranean peninsula. The basic job for refining and completing the task would be to diligently apply a somewhat more sophisticated time scale, as well as geolocated markers.
Hinduism in Italy. A condensed history of a meteorological phenomenon / Nencini, Andrea Maria; Squarcini, Federico. - (2020), pp. 1098-1140.
Hinduism in Italy. A condensed history of a meteorological phenomenon
Andrea Maria NenciniPrimo
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2020
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What Is It Like to Make a Map? Criteria and Rationale for Mapping “Religions” Since the end of August 2005, the name “Katrina” has been widely used to indicate a specific form of “windstorm,” a form that was delineated, shaped, and carved out from a much wider system of atmospheric air circulation that is conventionally classified, labelled, and hierarchically organised as “storm,” “thunderstorm,” “tornado,” “hurricane,” “cyclone,” “monsoon,” etc.Just as “Katrina” is the name given to a specific and isolated case of air flow and dynamic pressure called a “hurricane,” the label “Hinduism” is the conventional semantic aggregative functor that,2 since being coined in English usage (from 1750 onward), has been extensively adopted to address and reify a vast array of different “climates,” atmospheres, and contexts, which are all vaguely but tightly bound to geospatial locating factors. Today, in fact, media, columnists, and political influencers of various kinds continue to reiterate that “Hinduism” is “a religion with Indian origins.”Mapping religions within such a simplistic rational pattern seems to be a rather easy task: It merely requires reporting the location, in space and time, of an identifiable “object.” Seen from this perspective, in order to describe the historical situation of a “religious object” called “Hinduism” in Italy, it would be sufficient to assume that such an “object,” after it departed from India and reached American and European territories, landed on the northern Mediterranean peninsula. The basic job for refining and completing the task would be to diligently apply a somewhat more sophisticated time scale, as well as geolocated markers.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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