The guru in South Asia : new interdisciplinary perspectives

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The guru in South Asia : new interdisciplinary perspectives

edited by Jacob Copeman and Aya Ikegame

(Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian studies series / edited by Crispin Bates and the Editorial Committee of the Centre for South Asian Studies, Edinburgh University)

Routledge, 2014

  • : pbk

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"First published 2012. First issued in paperback 2014"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

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This book provides a set of fresh and compelling interdisciplinary approaches to the enduring phenomenon of the guru in South Asia. Moving across different gurus and kinds of gurus, and between past and present, the chapters call attention to the extraordinary scope and richness of the social lives and roles of South Asian gurus. Prevailing scholarship has rightly considered the guru to be a source of religious and philosophical knowledge and mystical bodily practices. This book goes further and considers the social engagements and entanglements of these spiritual leaders, not just on their own (narrowly denominational) terms, but in terms of their diverse, complex, rapidly evolving engagements with 'society' broadly conceived. The book explores and illuminates the significance of female gurus, gurus from the perspective of Islam, imbrications of guru-ship and slavery in pre-modern India, connections between gurus and power, governance and economic liberalization in modern and contemporary India, vexed questions of sexuality and guru-ship, gurus' charitable endeavours, the cosmopolitanism of gurus in contexts of spiritual tourism, and the mediation of gurus via technologies of electronic communication. Bringing together internationally renowned scholars from religious studies, political science, history, sociology and anthropology, The Guru in South Asia provides exciting and original new insights into South Asian guru-ship.

目次

1. The Multifarious Guru: An Introduction 2. The Governing Guru: Hindu Mathas In Liberalising India 3. The Slave Guru: Masters, Commanders, and Disciples In Early Modern South Asia 4. The Political Guru: The Guru as Eminence Grise 5. The Gay Guru: Fallibility, Unworldliness, and the Scene Of Instruction 6. The Female Guru: Guru, Gender, and the Path Of Personal Experience 7. The Dreamed Guru: The Entangled Lives of the Amil and the Anthropologist 8. The Mimetic Guru: Tracing the Real in Sikh-Dera Sacha Sauda Relations 9. The Mediated Guru: Simplicity, Instantaneity and Change in Middle-Class Religious Seeking 10. The Cosmopolitan Guru: Spiritual Tourism and Ashrams In Rishikesh 11. The Literary Guru: The Dual Emphasis on Bhakti and Vidhi In Western Indian Guru-Devotion 12. Continuities as Gurus Change

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