Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions

ISBN-13: 9780367624200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 448 str.

Opis

The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions presents critical research, overviews and case studies on religion in historical South Asia and in the seven nation states of contemporary South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives.

Spis treści

Introduction: Historical and Contemporary South Asian Religions  Part I Historical South Asian Religions: Formative developments 1. The Veda  2. The rise of Classical Brahmanism  3. Identity in Early Indian Religion  4. Dharma in Classical Hinduism  5. Reason, Dharma, and the discovery of Faith: Insights from the Modes of Classical Hinduism  6. From Yajña to Pūjā?  7. Early Pilgrimage Traditions in South Asia  8. Sri Lanka's Place in the History of South Asian Buddhism  9. The Place of Historical Nepal in the History of South Asian Religions  10. The Rise of Vaiṣṇava Devotion in North India: On the Origins of a Mughal Bhakti Sensibility  11. Nāth Saṃpradāya and the Formation of Haṭha Yoga Practices in India  12. Aurangzeb and Islam in India: 50 Years of Mughal Realpolitik  13. The Territorialisation of Sikh Pasts  Part II Contemporary South Asian Religions: Religious pluralism  14. Dalits and religion: Anti-caste Movements in India  15. The Betwixt and Between Religious Imaginary of Lāldās: Neither Here nor There  16. Conversion and Christian Relations with Non-Christians in South Asia  17. Science Sanskritised: How Modern Science Became a Handmaiden of Hindu Nationalism  18. Religion and Society in Pakistan: From Pīr’s Domination to Individual Connected Piety  19. Religion and Society in Bangladesh: Unpacking the Multilayered Relationships  20. Religion and Society in Sri Lanka  21. Religion and Secularism in Contemporary Nepal  22. The Transformation of Female Monastic Education in Contemporary Bhutan: If You Build Them, They Will Come  23. Regressing for Progress: Maldives Embraces a Salafi Future  24. Festivals in South Asia: Celebrations of Local Communities  25. Indian Religions in the U.S.  26. The Global Manifestation of the Hindu Guru Phenomenon

O autorze

Knut A. Jacobsen is Professor of Religion at the University of Bergen, Norway. His most recent book published by Routledge is Yoga in Modern Hinduism (2018) and the co-edited book Religion and Technology in India (2018), and he is the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India (2016).