Ancient to modern : religion, power, and community in India
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Ancient to modern : religion, power, and community in India
Oxford University Press, 2009
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Dedicated to David Lorenzen, this volume brings together new writings of many prominent historians including Romila Thapar, Champakalakshmi, Thomas Trautmann, John Straton Hawley, Frank F. Conlon, Ines Zupanov, Purushottam Agarawal. Together they negotiate different aspects of religion in the context of identity formulation and articulation of power. The essays cover the textual traditions, practice aspects and the anthropology of religion in India. They deal with
critical issues like literature, religious practitioners, internal differentiation in the various religious traditions (with emphasis on rebel traditions), caste, class customs, interpretations. In their introduction, the editors outline the different components and manifestations of religion and also
survey the writings on the subject.
Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION BY ISHITA BANERJEE-DUBE AND SAURABH DUBE
- CHAPTER 1. THE PURANAS: HERESY AND VAMSANUCARITA BY ROMILA THAPAR
- CHAPTER 2. SANKARA AND PURANIC RELIGION BY R. CHAMPAKALAKSHMI
- CHAPTER 3. 'NEVER HAVE I SEEN SUCH YOGIS BROTHER': YOGIS, WARRIORS, AND SORCERERS IN ANCIENT INDIA BY DAVID GORDON WHITE
- CHAPTER 4. VISUALIZATIONS OF THE HORRIFIC IN BUDDHIST TANTRIC LITERATURE BY BENJAMIN PRECIADO SOLIS
- CHAPTER 5. IN SEARCH OF RAMANAND: THE GURU OF KABIR AND OTHERS BY PURUSHOTTAM AGRAWAL
- CHAPTER 6. FIGHTING OVER KABIR'S DEAD BODY BY LINDA HESS
- CHAPTER 7. ORIENTALIST MUSEUM: ROMAN MISSIONARY COLLECTIONS AND PRINTS BY INES G. ZUPANOV
- CHAPTER 8. THE MISSIONARY AND THE ORIENTALIST BY THOMAS R. TRAUTMANN
- CHAPTER 9. WITNESSING LIVES BY SAURABH DUBE
- CHAPTER 10. SPEAKING OF CASTE? COLONIAL AND INDIGENOUS INTERPRETATIONS OF CASTE AND COMMUNITY IN NINETEENTH CENTURY BOMBAY BY FRANK F. CONLON
- CHAPTER 11. SANATANA DHARMA AS THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BEGAN: TWO TEXTBOOKS, TWO LANGUAGES BY JOHN STRATTON HAWLEY
- CHAPTER 12. CUSTOMS AND CANONS: BHIMA BHOI IN THE LITERARY TRADITION OF ORISSA BY ISHITA BANERJEE-DUBE
- CHAPTER 13. LIVING ABOVE HIPPOPOTAMUS STREET: RELIGION AND COMMUNITY IN WORKING-CLASS NORTH INDIA BY DANIEL GOLD.
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