This article uses the analytical tool of divine kinship to explore political charisma across Indian and Venezuelan democratic social revolutions. In both contexts, charismatic elected political leaders build their image of strength and action on a wide repertoire of cultural and religious resources that are legitimated by divine kinship. The juxtaposition of the Indian and Venezuelan political ethnographies shows how charismatic kinship inflects lived understandings of popular sovereignty and opens up spaces for holding personality politics accountable.
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Sons of Krishna and sons of Bolivar
Charismatic kinship and leadership across India and Venezuela
Lucia Michelutti
Portrait
Ann Grodzins Gold
Ann Grodzins Gold, Bhrigupati Singh, Farhana Ibrahim, Edward Simpson, and Kirin Narayan
between the origins sketched here and my path as an ethnographer of popular Hinduism and plenty of other things in provincial North India. I am certain that Hinduism, the only religion about which I regularly teach and have frequently written with any
Stephan Feuchtwang
, Antonino . 1985 . “ Hsi-chih (fl. 676–703 ad), a Brahmin Born in China .” Estratto da Annali dell’Instituto Universitario Orientale 45 : 106 – 134 . Fuller , C. J. 1992 . The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India . Princeton, NJ
Citizenship in religious clothing?
Navayana Buddhism and Dalit emancipation in late 1990s Uttar Pradesh
Nicolas Jaoul
, creativity, and freedom that characterize popular Hinduism are simply dismissed and wished away by the Ambedkarites, who focus on the links with Brahminism and caste and denounce these sects as a culture of poverty. While swimming against the tide of popular