Text And Context In The Study Of Contemporary Hinduism
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Modern Hinduism in Text and Context
Author | : Lavanya Vemsani |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-07-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781350045101 |
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Modern Hinduism in Text and Context brings together textual and contextual approaches to provide a holistic understanding of modern Hinduism. It examines new sources - including regional Saiva texts, Odissi dance and biographies of Nationalists - and discusses topics such as yoga, dance, visual art and festivals in tandem with questions of spirituality and ritual. The book addresses themes and issues yet to receive in-depth attention in the study of Hinduism. It shows that Hinduism endures not only in texts, but also in the context of festivals and devotion, and that contemporary practice, devotional literature, creative traditions and ethics inform the intricacies of a religion in context. Lavanya Vemsani draws on social scientific methodologies as well as history, ethnography and textual analysis, demonstrating that they are all part of the toolkit for understanding the larger framework of religion in the context of emerging nationhood, transnational and transcultural interactions.
Text and Context in the Study of Contemporary Hinduism
Author | : Milton B. Singer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Hinduism |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4295080 |
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The Study of Hinduism
Author | : Arvind Sharma |
Publsiher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Hinduism |
ISBN | : 1570034494 |
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In this text, leading scholars from around the world take stock of two centuries of international intellectual investment in Hinduism. Since the early 19th century, when the scholarly investigation of Hinduism began to take shape as a modern academic discipline, Hindu studies has evolved from its concentration on description and analysis to an emphasis on understanding Hindu traditions in the context of the religion's own values, concepts and history. Offering an assessment of the current state of Hindu studies, the contributors to this volume identify past achievements and chart the course for what remains to be accomplished in the field.
Words and Deeds
Author | : Jörg Gengnagel,Ute Hüsken,Srilata Raman |
Publsiher | : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : 3447051523 |
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Words and Deeds is a collection of articles on rituals in South Asia with a special focus on their texts and context. The volume presupposes that a comprehensive definition of "ritual" does not exist. Instead, the papers in it avoid essentialist definitions, allowing for a possible polythetic definition of the concept to emerge. Papers in this volume include those on Initiation, Pre-Natal Rites, Religious Processions, Royal Consecration, Rituals which mark the commencement of ritual, Rituals of devotion and Vedic sacrifice as well as contributions which address the broader theoretical issues of engaging in the study of ritual texts and ritual practice, both from the etic and the emic perspective. These studies show that any study of the relationship between the text and the context of rituals must also allow for the possibility that different categories of performers can and do subjectively constitute the relationship between their ritual knowledge and ritual practice, between text and context in differing and nuanced ways.
Homo Ritualis
Author | : Axel Michaels |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780190262631 |
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'Homo Ritualis' describes and analyzes various forms of Hindu rituals and examines conceptual components such as framing, formality modality and theories of meaning. Presenting a Hindu theory of rituals, the book asks how indigenous terms and notions of ritual contribute to ritual theory.
Studying Peoples in the People s Democracies
Author | : Mihály Sárkány,C. M. Hann,Peter Skalník |
Publsiher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3825880486 |
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Under socialism the anthropological sciences developed under conflicting pressures: on the one hand Soviet influences, Marxist ideology and institutional changes, on the other the continued influence of national traditions and of the distinction between Volkskunde and Volkerkunde. The chapters bring out striking differences between the countries considered: the German Democratic Republic, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. They also draw attention to variation within countries, and between sub-branches of the discipline. Coverage extends from the Stalinist years to the end of the socialist era, and the topics range from folklore studies at home to fieldwork expeditions abroad.
Querying the Medieval
Author | : Ronald Inden,Jonathan Walters,Daud Ali |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2000-06-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195352436 |
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Indologist Ronald Inden has in the past raised questions about the images of a "traditional" or "medieval" India deployed by colonial scholars and rulers--"Orientalists"--and has also argued that a history of "early medieval" India very different from both the colonial and nationalist accounts could be written. This volume is designed as an important first step towards that goal. The authors look closely at three genres of texts that have been crucial to the representations of precolonial India. All three essays challenge not only colonialist scholarship but the attempts by religious nationalists to identify Hinduism as the essence of national identity in India and Buddhism as the essence of nationality in Sri Lanka.
Studying Hinduism
Author | : Sushil Mittal,Gene Thursby |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2009-01-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781134418299 |
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This book is an indispensable resource for students and researchers wishing to develop a deeper understanding of one of the world's oldest and most multifaceted religious traditions. Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby, leading scholars in the field, have brought together a rich variety of perspectives which reflect the current lively state of the field. Studying Hinduism is the result of cooperative work by accomplished specialists in several fields that include anthropology, art, comparative literature, history, philosophy, religious studies, and sociology. Through these complementary and exciting approaches, students will gain a greater understanding of India's culture and traditions, to which Hinduism is integral. The book uses key critical terms and topics as points of entry into the subject, revealing that although Hinduism can be interpreted in sharply contrasting ways and set in widely varying contexts, it is endlessly fascinating and intriguing.