Hindu Pluralism (eBook)

Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India

Elaine M. Fisher (Autor)

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2017
300 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96629-1 (ISBN)

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A free ebook version of this title is available throughLuminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more. In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term ';sectarianism,' Fisher's work excavates the pluralistic textures of precolonial Hinduism in the centuries prior to British intervention. Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu, Fisher argues that the performance of plural religious identities in public space in Indian early modernity paved the way for the emergence of a distinctively non-Western form of religious pluralism. This work provides a critical resource for understanding how Hinduism developed in the early modern period, a crucial era that set the tenor for religions role in public life in India through the present day.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Hindu Sectarianism: Difference in Unity
2. “Just Like Kalidasa”: The Making of the Smarta-Saiva Community of South India
3. Public Philology: Constructing Sectarian Identities in Early Modern South India
4. The Language Games of Siva: Mapping Text and Space in Public Religious Culture
Conclusion: A Prehistory of Hindu Pluralism

Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.2.2017
• Reihe/Serie: South Asia Across the Disciplines
• Reihe/Serie: South Asia Across the Disciplines
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
• Schlagworte: academic • Britain • British colony • Colonial • Colonialism • eastern religion • Hindu • Hinduism • India • Literary Analysis • luminos • Modernity • pluralism • post colonial • Precolonial • public life • Public Space • Religion • Religious Identity • Religious pluralism • Religious Studies • Sanskrit • scholarly • Sectarianism • Tamil • telegu • unification • World Religion
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96629-5 / 0520966295
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96629-1 / 9780520966291