ISBN:
9780415501989
,
0415778786
,
9780415778787
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 202 S.
,
25 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Intersections
Series Statement:
colonial and postcolonial histories 2
Series Statement:
Intersections
Keywords:
Religion and social status Historiography
;
Dalits Historiography
;
Dalits Social conditions
;
Dalits Religious life
;
Dalits
;
South Asia
;
Religion
;
Dalits
;
South Asia
;
Social conditions
;
Marginality, Social
;
Religious aspects
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and culture
;
South Asia
;
Religion and social problems
;
South Asia
;
Indien
;
Dalit
;
Religion
;
Bhakti
;
Kabir 1440-1518
;
Tukaram
;
Jñānadeva 1275-1290
;
Maharashtra
;
Volksreligion
Abstract:
Preface -- Introduction: The question of a prehistory -- Subalternity at the cusp : limits and openings in the Dalit critique -- Moral rite before myth and law : death in comparative religion -- The time of having-found (God) : languages of Dalit hearsay -- The vicissitudes of historical religion -- The anomaly of Kabir : historical religion in Dwivedi's Kabir -- The pitfalls of a Dalit theology : DR Dharmvir's critique of Dwivedi -- System and history in Rajwade's grammar for the Dnyaneswari -- The prehistory of historical religion -- The suspension of iconoclasm : myth and allegory in the time of deities -- Miracle and violence : the allegorical turn in Kabir, Dnyaneswara, and Tukaram -- Deity and Daivat : the transfiguration of the folk in Tukaram
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- Introduction: The question of a prehistory -- Subalternity at the cusp : limits and openings in the Dalit critique -- Moral rite before myth and law : death in comparative religion -- The time of having-found (God) : languages of Dalit hearsay -- The vicissitudes of historical religion -- The anomaly of Kabir : historical religion in Dwivedi's Kabir -- The pitfalls of a Dalit theology : DR Dharmvir's critique of Dwivedi -- System and history in Rajwade's grammar for the Dnyaneswari -- The prehistory of historical religion -- The suspension of iconoclasm : myth and allegory in the time of deities -- Miracle and violence : the allegorical turn in Kabir, Dnyaneswara, and Tukaram -- Deity and Daivat : the transfiguration of the folk in Tukaram.
Note:
Literaturverz. S. [195] - 199
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