Religion and Public Culture: Encounters and Identities in Modern South India

ISBN-13: 9781138878884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 260 str.

Keith E. Yandell Keith E. Yandell; John J. Paul

Opis

These essays explore the intricacies of one of most complex socio-religious environment in the world, examining the evolution of the notion of Hinduism as a distinct and separate religion.

Recenzje

'An excellent study of the formation of religious publics, their interaction with each other and with other publics. It deserves to be read by anyone interested in the religious history of India.' - Hindu-Christian Studies

Spis treści

Part 1 Orthodoxies; Chapter 1 The Construction of Hinduism as a Public Religion: Looking Again at the Religious Roots of Company Raj in South India, Robert Eric Frykenberg; Chapter 2 Acting in Public versus Forming a Public: Conflict Processing and Political Mobilization in Nineteenth Century South India, Pamela G. Price; Chapter 3 The Significance of Episcopal Extension for Church-State Relations in British India, Susan Billington Harper; Chapter 4 The Drama of Conversion in the Courts of South India: Challenges to Aggressive Missionary Enterprise and Changing Judicial Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century, John J. Paul; Chapter 5 Routinized Charisma: the Case of Aurobindo and Auroville, Robert K. Minor; Chapter 6 Dissolving One Paradox and Discovering Another: Pillan's Interpretation of Nammalvar's Poem, John B. Carman; Chapter 7 Memories of Brahman Agraharam in Travancore, Pauline Kolenda; Part 2 Heterodoxies; Chapter 8 Cult Saints, Heroes, and Warrior Kings: South Asian Islam in the Making, Susan Bayly; Chapter 9 Persons East and West, Keith E. Yandell; Chapter 10 The Heterodoxies in Tamil Nadu, James D. Ryan;

O autorze

KeithE. Yandell, JohnJ. Paul