Rövid leírás:
This volume explores different aspects of religion in the context of identity formation and articulation of power. It deals with critical issues like literature, religious practitioners, internal differentiation in the various religious traditions (with emphasis on rebel traditions), caste, class customs, interpretations.
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Dedicated to David Lorenzen, this volume brings together new writings of many prominent historians including Romila Thapar, Champakalakshmi, Thomas Trautmann, John Straton Hawley, Frank F. Conlon, Ines Zupanov, Purushottam Agarawal. Together they negotiate different aspects of religion in the context of identity formulation and articulation of power. The essays cover the textual traditions, practice aspects and the anthropology of religion in India. They deal with critical issues like literature, religious practitioners, internal differentiation in the various religious traditions (with emphasis on rebel traditions), caste, class customs, interpretations. In their introduction, the editors outline the different components and manifestations of religion and also survey the writings on the subject.
There is much to commend to thsi volume. The essays provide a wide variety of perspectives on religion, power, and identity formation from different time periods of Indian history, and they are all extremely rich in detail and analysis.
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Tartalomjegyzék:
Preface
Introduction by Ishita Banerjee-Dube and Saurabh Dube
Chapter 1. The Puranas: Heresy and Vamsanucarita by Romila Thapar
Chapter 2. Sankara and Puranic Religion by R. Champakalakshmi
Chapter 3. ‘Never Have I seen Such Yogis Brother’: Yogis, Warriors, and Sorcerers in Ancient India by David Gordon White
Chapter 4. Visualizations of the Horrific in Buddhist Tantric Literature by Benjamín Preciado Solis
Chapter 5. In Search of Ramanand: The Guru of Kabir and Others by Purushottam Agrawal
Chapter 6. Fighting over Kabir’s Dead Body by Linda Hess
Chapter 7. Orientalist Museum: Roman Missionary Collections and Prints by Ines G. Zupanov
Chapter 8. The Missionary and the Orientalist by Thomas R. Trautmann
Chapter 9. Witnessing Lives by Saurabh Dube
Chapter 10. Speaking of Caste? Colonial and Indigenous Interpretations of Caste and Community in Nineteenth Century Bombay by Frank F. Conlon
Chapter 11. Sanatana Dharma as the Twentieth Century Began: Two textbooks, Two Languages by John Stratton Hawley
Chapter 12. Customs and Canons: Bhima Bhoi in the Literary Tradition of Orissa by Ishita Banerjee-Dube
Chapter 13. Living Above Hippopotamus Street: Religion and Community in Working-Class North India by Daniel Gold.
