Imagining Hinduism

Author : Sharada Sugirtharajah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134517206

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Imagining Hinduism by Sharada Sugirtharajah Pdf

Imagining Hinduism examines how Hinduism has been defined, interpreted and manufactured through Western categorizations, from the foreign interventions of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Orientalists and missionaries, to the present day. Sugirtharajah argues that ever since early Orientalists 'discovered' the ancient Sanskrit texts and the Hindu 'golden age', the West has nurtured a complex and ambivalent fascination with Hinduism, ranging from romantic admiration to ridicule. At the same time, Hindu discourse has drawn upon Orientalist representations in order to redefine Hindu identity. As the first comprehensive work to bring postcolonial critique to the study of Hinduism, this is essential reading for those seeking a full understanding of Hinduism.

Author : Jennifer B. Saunders
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190941246

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Imagining Religious Communities by Jennifer B. Saunders Pdf

Imagining Religious Communities tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and maintain their extended family and community across national borders. Based on ethnographic research, the book demonstrates the ways that transnational communities are involved in shaping their experiences through narrative performances. Jennifer B. Saunders demonstrates that narrative performances shape participants' social realities in multiple ways: they define identities, they create connections between community members living on opposite sides of national borders, and they help create new homes amidst increasing mobility. The narratives are religious and include epic narratives such as excerpts from the Ramayana as well as personal narratives with dharmic implications. Saunders' analysis combines scholarly understandings of the ways in which performances shape the contexts in which they are told, indigenous comprehension of the power that reciting certain narratives can have on those who hear them, and the theory that social imaginaries define new social realities through expressing the aspirations of communities. Imagining Religious Communities argues that this Hindu community's religious narrative performances significantly contribute to shaping their transnational lives.

Author : Jennifer B. Saunders
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190941222

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Imagining Religious Communities by Jennifer B. Saunders Pdf

Imagining Religious Communities tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and maintain their extended family and community across national borders. Based on ethnographic research, the book demonstrates the ways that transnational communities are involved in shaping their experiences through narrative performances. Jennifer B. Saunders demonstrates that narrative performances shape participants' social realities in multiple ways: they define identities, they create connections between community members living on opposite sides of national borders, and they help create new homes amidst increasing mobility. The narratives are religious and include epic narratives such as excerpts from the Ramayana as well as personal narratives with dharmic implications. Saunders' analysis combines scholarly understandings of the ways in which performances shape the contexts in which they are told, indigenous comprehension of the power that reciting certain narratives can have on those who hear them, and the theory that social imaginaries define new social realities through expressing the aspirations of communities. Imagining Religious Communities argues that this Hindu community's religious narrative performances significantly contribute to shaping their transnational lives.

Author : Pashaura Singh,Michael Hawley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004242364

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Re-imagining South Asian Religions by Pashaura Singh,Michael Hawley Pdf

Re-imagining South Asian Religions is a collection of essays offering new ways of understanding aspects of Hindu, Tibetan Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Theosophical, and Indian Christian experiences.

Author : William K. Mahony
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791435806

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The Artful Universe by William K. Mahony Pdf

Provides an accessible introduction to the Vedic religious world by focusing on the role of divine and human imagination in sacred texts.

Author : Vinay Lal
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198064187

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Political Hinduism by Vinay Lal Pdf

This volume addresses issues of tremendous topical relevance: the transmission of Hinduism to the United States, Gandhi's religious politics and secularism, analysis of 'Vande Mataram' and its immensely rich history, popular patriotism in Hindi cinema, and much more.

Author : Ronald Inden
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0253213584

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Imagining India by Ronald Inden Pdf

This edition contains a new introduction.

Author : Ronald B. Inden
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : East and West
ISBN : 1850655200

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Imagining India by Ronald B. Inden Pdf

How does the Western world represent India? In this controversial and widely-praised book, the author argues that the West's major depictions of India have deprived Indians of their capacity to rule thir own world.

Author : Alexander Rocklin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469648729

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The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad by Alexander Rocklin Pdf

How can religious freedom be granted to people who do not have a religion? While Indian indentured workers in colonial Trinidad practiced cherished rituals, "Hinduism" was not a widespread category in India at the time. On this Caribbean island, people of South Asian descent and African descent came together—under the watchful eyes of the British rulers—to walk on hot coals for fierce goddesses, summon spirits of the dead, or honor Muslim martyrs, practices that challenged colonial norms for religion and race. Drawing deeply on colonial archives, Alexander Rocklin examines the role of the category of religion in the regulation of the lives of Indian laborers struggling for autonomy. Gradually, Indians learned to narrate the origins, similarities, and differences among their fellows' cosmological views, and to define Hindus, Muslims, and Christians as distinct groups. Their goal in doing this work of subaltern comparative religion, as Rocklin puts it, was to avoid criminalization and to have their rituals authorized as legitimate religion—they wanted nothing less than to gain access to the British promise of religious freedom. With the indenture system's end, the culmination of this politics of recognition was the gradual transformation of Hindus' rituals and the reorganization of their lives—they fabricated a "world religion" called Hinduism.

Author : Geoffrey A Oddie
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015064760740

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Imagined Hinduism by Geoffrey A Oddie Pdf

This is an exploration of the emergence and refinement of the idea of Hinduism as it developed among British Protestant missionaries in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The text traces the growing use of the term 'Hinduism' as a category and label that has come to dominate the way scholars think about Indian religions.

Author : Kirsteen Kim,Knud Jørgensen,Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192567581

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The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies by Kirsteen Kim,Knud Jørgensen,Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies represents more than a century of scholarship related to the theology, history, and methodology of the propagation of Christian faith and the engagement of Christians with cultures, religions, and societies worldwide. It contains more than 40 articles by experts from different disciplinary and ecclesial perspectives, who are from all continents. It not only offers a broad overview of key approaches and issues in mission studies but it also highlights current trends and suggests future developments. The Handbook builds on renewed interest in mission studies this century generated by recent key statements on mission from ecumenical, evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox sources, and by a spate of academic works on the topic. Western church leaders now apply insights from foreign missions (such as, inculturation, liberation, interfaith work, and power encounter) to today's multicultural societies. Meanwhile, there are new initiatives in mission from the Majority World, where most Christians live, so that sending is not only 'from the west to the rest' but 'from everywhere to everywhere'. Therefore, this volume aims to reflect the voices of the receivers of mission as well as its protagonists and to raise awareness of new movements. In a time of growing recognition of 'religions' more generally, this work examines and theorizes the missional dimensions of the world's largest religion: its agendas, growth, outreach, role in public life, effect on cultures, relevance for development, and its approaches to other communities.

Author : Romila Thapar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Hinduism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121950161

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Imagined Religious Communities? by Romila Thapar Pdf

Author : Carl Olson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813540689

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The Many Colors of Hinduism by Carl Olson Pdf

This is an introductory text providing a balanced view of the rich religious tradition of Hinduism, acknowledging the full range of its many competing and even contradictory aspects.

Author : Jeffery D. Long
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781538122945

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Historical Dictionary of Hinduism by Jeffery D. Long Pdf

Hinduism is the world’s third largest and most ancient religion. The scope of this book ranges from the ancient history of Hinduism to the contemporary issues that Hindus face today. It explores the Hindu history, society, philosophy, theology, and culture. In addition to Hinduism, this book also touches upon religious traditions with which Hindus have had extensive interaction, such as Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Christianity, Islam, and Zoroastrianism. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Hinduism contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries on deities, historical figures, festivals, philosophical terms, ritual implements, and much more. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Hinduism.

Author : Sushil Mittal,Gene Thursby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134418299

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Studying Hinduism by Sushil Mittal,Gene Thursby Pdf

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.