ISBN:
9780700711017
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (273 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Religion and Public Culture : Encounters and Identities in Modern South India
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Religion and public culture
DDC:
306.694509548
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Indien Süd
;
Hinduismus
;
Gesellschaft
Abstract:
The last two centuries have witnessed profound changes in the nature of public consciousness. Nowhere has this been more true than in India, especially in relation to changing cultures of public life and religious tradition in South India. Essays in this collection attempt to explore the intricacies of what is perhaps the single most complex socio-religious environment in the world. The essays consider the evolution of the notion of Hinduism as a distinct and singular separate religion; the relationship between this kind of formulation and various European or western influences in India; and d
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; INTRODUCTION; Section 1: Orthodoxies; 1 The Construction of Hinduism as a ""Public"" Religion: Looking Again at the Religious Roots of Company Raj in South India; 2 Acting in Public versus Forming a Public: Conflict Processing and Political Mobilization in Nineteenth Century South India; 3 The Significance of Episcopal Extension for Church-State Relations in British India; 4 The Drama of Conversion in the Courts of South India: Challenges to Aggressive Missionary Enterprise and Changing Judicial Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Routinized Charisma: the Case of Aurobindo and Auroville6 Dissolving One Paradox and Discovering Another: Pillan's Interpretation of Nammalvar's Poem; 7 Memories of Brahman Agraharam in Travancore; Section 2: Heterodoxies; 8 Cult Saints, Heroes, and Warrior Kings: South Asian Islam in the Making; 9 Persons ""East"" and ""West""; 10 The Heterodoxies in Tamil Nadu; INDEX
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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