Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism

ISBN-13: 9780197648599 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 264 str.

Assistant Professor Emilia (Assistant Professor of Religion

Recenzje

Picture a group of Gujarati women on a Thursday afternoon reading a 17th-century hagiography of a Hindu Pushtimarg follower that leads to their discussion of whether or not they can offer pizza to Krishna, and you will grasp what Emilia Bachrach notably characterizes as a 'performative canon' of engaged responses that distinctively shape a relevant continuity with tradition. Devotional reading is a primary religious mode, in which devotees' lively discussions make the past palpable, the present morally actionable, and the future expansive for the Pushtimarg community. Bachrach's illuminating analysis is essential to understanding lived religion in India and comparatively.

O autorze

Emilia Bachrach is Assistant Professor of Religion and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Oberlin College. Her research focuses on how people's interpretations of religious texts inform and are informed by intimate negotiations of the family and the self, and by changing class, regional, and gender identities in contemporary western India. She also works with oral and written texts in early modern and modern languages, including Braj Bhasha, Gujarati, and Hindi.