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Imagining Hinduism
Author | : Sharada Sugirtharajah |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2004-02-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781134517206 |
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Imagining Hinduism examines how Hinduism has been defined, interpreted and manufactured through Western categorizations, from the foreign interventions of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Orientalists and missionaries, to the present day. Sugirtharajah argues that ever since early Orientalists 'discovered' the ancient Sanskrit texts and the Hindu 'golden age', the West has nurtured a complex and ambivalent fascination with Hinduism, ranging from romantic admiration to ridicule. At the same time, Hindu discourse has drawn upon Orientalist representations in order to redefine Hindu identity. As the first comprehensive work to bring postcolonial critique to the study of Hinduism, this is essential reading for those seeking a full understanding of Hinduism.
Imagining Religious Communities
Author | : Jennifer B. Saunders |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-07-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780190941239 |
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Imagining Religious Communities tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and maintain their extended family and community across national borders. Based on ethnographic research, the book demonstrates the ways that transnational communities are involved in shaping their experiences through narrative performances. Jennifer B. Saunders demonstrates that narrative performances shape participants' social realities in multiple ways: they define identities, they create connections between community members living on opposite sides of national borders, and they help create new homes amidst increasing mobility. The narratives are religious and include epic narratives such as excerpts from the Ramayana as well as personal narratives with dharmic implications. Saunders' analysis combines scholarly understandings of the ways in which performances shape the contexts in which they are told, indigenous comprehension of the power that reciting certain narratives can have on those who hear them, and the theory that social imaginaries define new social realities through expressing the aspirations of communities. Imagining Religious Communities argues that this Hindu community's religious narrative performances significantly contribute to shaping their transnational lives.
Imagining Religious Communities
Author | : Jennifer B. Saunders |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780190941222 |
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Imagining Religious Communities tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and maintain their extended family and community across national borders. Based on ethnographic research, the book demonstrates the ways that transnational communities are involved in shaping their experiences through narrative performances. Jennifer B. Saunders demonstrates that narrative performances shape participants' social realities in multiple ways: they define identities, they create connections between community members living on opposite sides of national borders, and they help create new homes amidst increasing mobility. The narratives are religious and include epic narratives such as excerpts from the Ramayana as well as personal narratives with dharmic implications. Saunders' analysis combines scholarly understandings of the ways in which performances shape the contexts in which they are told, indigenous comprehension of the power that reciting certain narratives can have on those who hear them, and the theory that social imaginaries define new social realities through expressing the aspirations of communities. Imagining Religious Communities argues that this Hindu community's religious narrative performances significantly contribute to shaping their transnational lives.
Re imagining South Asian Religions
Author | : Pashaura Singh,Michael Hawley |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2012-12-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004242364 |
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Re-imagining South Asian Religions is a collection of essays offering new ways of understanding aspects of Hindu, Tibetan Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Theosophical, and Indian Christian experiences.
The Artful Universe
Author | : William K. Mahony |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0791435806 |
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Provides an accessible introduction to the Vedic religious world by focusing on the role of divine and human imagination in sacred texts.
Imagining India
Author | : Ronald Inden |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253213584 |
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This edition contains a new introduction.
Political Hinduism
Author | : Vinay Lal |
Publsiher | : OUP India |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2009-09-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0198064187 |
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This volume addresses issues of tremendous topical relevance: the transmission of Hinduism to the United States, Gandhi's religious politics and secularism, analysis of 'Vande Mataram' and its immensely rich history, popular patriotism in Hindi cinema, and much more.
Imagined Hinduism
Author | : Geoffrey A Oddie |
Publsiher | : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2006-04-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : UOM:39015064760740 |
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This is an exploration of the emergence and refinement of the idea of Hinduism as it developed among British Protestant missionaries in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The text traces the growing use of the term 'Hinduism' as a category and label that has come to dominate the way scholars think about Indian religions.