User:Cmanke99/Aghori

Editing Ideas

 * 1) General
 * 2) Check for copyright/plagiarism violations
 * 3) Check for citation accuracy
 * 4) Add citations where missing
 * 5) Try to confirm/corroborate the information for the pictures. If impossible, remove text.
 * 6) Either expand certain sections to better explicate certain concepts, or simplify the sections to prevent the overuse of external links in place of actual explanations
 * 7) Sections changes
 * 8) Revamp "Heading" section
 * 9) Specify the location of the Aghori
 * 10) Revamp "Beliefs and doctrines" section
 * 11) Redo the section about the "Supreme Being" if needed (appears to be a Westernized conception of Hindu ideals)
 * 12) List all the "eight great nooses"
 * 13) What is meant by "every person's soul is Shiva"?
 * 14) Revamp "History" section
 * 15) Be more specific with the approximate dates of the timeline
 * 16) Include more actual history and less description of Aghori practices and beliefs divorced from their historical development
 * 17) Revamp "Adherents" section
 * 18) Expand section
 * 19) Revamp "Spiritual headquarters" section
 * 20) Is "Spiritual Headquarters" really the right term?
 * 21) Expand section
 * 22) Revamp "Medicine" section
 * 23) Expand section
 * 24) Move relevant information out of the history section and into this section
 * 25) Revamp "See also" section
 * 26) Expand if necessary (most relevant links already seem to appear in the other sections)
 * 27) Revamp "References" section
 * 28) Try to confirm/corroborate reference 1 and replace it. If impossible, delete source altogether. (Bad source)
 * 29) Try to confirm/corroborate reference 2.
 * 30) Try to confirm/corroborate reference 3 and replace it. If impossible, delete source altogether. (Bad source)
 * 31) Try to confirm/corroborate reference 4.
 * 32) Try to confirm/corroborate reference 5 and replace it. If impossible, delete source altogether. (Bad source)
 * 33) Expand and try to confirm/corroborate reference 6 (Likely "Death in Banaras" by Jonathan P. Parry based on the name and date)
 * 34) Try to confirm/corroborate reference 7.
 * 35) Try to confirm/corroborate reference 8 and replace it. If impossible, delete source altogether. (Bad source + Link rot)
 * 36) Delete reference 9? (Duplicate of reference 7; different page number)
 * 37) Try to confirm/corroborate reference 10 and replace it. If impossible, delete source altogether. (Bad source)
 * 38) Delete reference 11? (Duplicate of reference 7; different page number; different page reader; different author for some reason?)
 * 39) Revamp  "Further Reading" section
 * 40) Look through the readings and see if they can be included as references
 * 41) Add other readings from the references section if appropriate
 * 42) Check "External Links" sections
 * 43) Check image sources
 * 44) Verify fair use, remove if copyright or plagiarism applies
 * 45) Verify, change, or remove descriptions
 * 46) Reverse image search engines will be most useful here (Tineye, google, etc.)
 * 47) Other Ideas
 * 48) Add "support" section
 * 49) Article mentions some level of public support for the Aghori but doesn't expand upon this (fails to explain motivation). Furthermore, doesn't delve into any specific theological, social, or cultural support the movement may have garnered from individuals over the years.
 * 50) Also doesn't explain the motivations of those who choose to join the sect and become Aghori Sadhus. Why choose this sect over others? Why leave behind everything to be a Sadhus? What is the appeal of the Aghori?
 * 51) Just about every other Wikipedia article on a world religion or religious sect includes such a section to present a necessary perceptive on the subject
 * 52) Add "criticism" section
 * 53) Article mentions that Aghori beliefs and practices are seen as contrary to orthodox Hinduism and repugnant to many but fails to specify specific theological, social, cultural, or likewise critiques. Also, fails to explain how this plays out in the context of society, in terms of the legal system, public opinion, etc. Needs such a section to put all this into perspective without taking a side.
 * 54) Just about every other Wikipedia article on a world religion or religious sect includes such a section to present a necessary perceptive on the subject
 * 55) New Sources (Uncited)
 * 56) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2020.1713877?scroll=top&needAccess=true
 * 57) https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/1900-v1-n1-teoros03098/1040231ar/abstract/
 * 58) http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.693.6704&rep=rep1&type=pdf
 * 59) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0069966715615023?casa_token=oBbHMLc0RFUAAAAA:ZTba3KcEAy0KVWwgq9Vn0B_AV9RqaaY1Nm8KIVo7zhT5tyk2ZQrE3y6AEDfbQJEBYSGoQnLDfq3x_HQ
 * 60) https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:806855/FULLTEXT01.pdf#page=65
 * 61) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1743873X.2019.1610411
 * 62) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pn7f4?turn_away=true
 * 63) file:///C:/Users/cb4a3/Downloads/IJCU11637784revised%20(1).pdf
 * 64) https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws:33956/
 * 65) https://www.jstor.org/stable/2842008?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
 * 66) http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.455.1771&rep=rep1&type=pdf#page=133
 * 67) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00381-013-2204-7
 * 1) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00381-013-2204-7

= Aghori = [The Aghori (Sanskrit aghora) are a small group of ascetic Shaiva sadhus]  based in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Beliefs and Doctrines
Aghori rituals, which are preformed precisely to oppose notions of purity commonplace in orthodox Hinduism, are typically macabre in nature. Such acts include living in cemeteries, smearing cremation ashes on their bodies, the use of human skulls for decoration and bowls, coprophagy, necrophagy, smoking marijuana, drinking alcohol, and meditating on top of corpses. Although contrary to mainstream Hinduism, these practices exemplify the Aghori philosophy of criticizing commonplace social relations and fears through the use of culturally offensive acts. Furthermore, they demonstrate the Aghoris’ acceptance of death as a necessary and natural part of the human experience. This belief also arises from the Aghori insistence on the non-duality of life and death, making the acceptance of the death also the true acceptance of life itself. Despite the thought behind such actions, outsiders (particularly tourists) have typically viewed the sect with suspicion and horror, with their lifestyles being described as morally damaging to the Indian youth, akin to living like animals, uncivilized compared to modern Hindu society, or outright dangerous, due to belief that the Aghori are willing to kill live humans for their rituals. This particular claim, as of the present, has yet to be substantiated with hard evidence.