The Quotidian Revolution

Author : Christian Lee Novetzke
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231542418

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The Quotidian Revolution by Christian Lee Novetzke Pdf

In thirteenth-century Maharashtra, a new vernacular literature emerged to challenge the hegemony of Sanskrit, a language largely restricted to men of high caste. In a vivid and accessible idiom, this new Marathi literature inaugurated a public debate over the ethics of social difference grounded in the idiom of everyday life. The arguments of vernacular intellectuals pushed the question of social inclusion into ever-wider social realms, spearheading the development of a nascent premodern public sphere that valorized the quotidian world in sociopolitical terms. The Quotidian Revolution examines this pivotal moment of vernacularization in Indian literature, religion, and public life by investigating courtly donative Marathi inscriptions alongside the first extant texts of Marathi literature: the Lilacaritra (1278) and the Jñanesvari (1290). Novetzke revisits the influence of Chakradhar (c. 1194), the founder of the Mahanubhav religion, and Jnandev (c. 1271), who became a major figure of the Varkari religion, to observe how these avant-garde and worldly elites pursued a radical intervention into the social questions and ethics of the age. Drawing on political anthropology and contemporary theories of social justice, religion, and the public sphere, The Quotidian Revolution explores the specific circumstances of this new discourse oriented around everyday life and its lasting legacy: widening the space of public debate in a way that presages key aspects of Indian modernity and democracy.

Author : Barbara Flowers Cottrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cyberspace
ISBN : UCR:31210017934991

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Author : Dr.Varada Sambhus
Publisher : Indus Scrolls Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Vari Pilgrimage: Bhakti, Being and Beyond by Dr.Varada Sambhus Pdf

The Vārī to Pandharpur is one of the most significant pilgrimages in Maharashtra and India. It is a living tradition and attracts millions of pilgrims annually from across the Marathi-speaking region and beyond. This book highlights the structure, organization, symbolism, and wide range of social interactions during the Vārī pilgrimage through the dindis and pālkhī processions. Vārkarī Sampradāya is a community of devotees unequivocally associated with the Varī pilgrimage. While understanding and analyzing the Vārī pilgrimage, the book also discusses the Varkarī Sampradāya, its ethos, philosophy, santa tradition, literary canon, and how it has contributed to shaping Maharashtrian culture. It is argued that the Vārkarī bhakti ethos is circulated through various public means of bhakti, and the Vārī pilgrimage is the most prominent site of this circulation. Though the Vārī pilgrimage is considered mainly a spiritual and religious phenomenon, an attempt is made to highlight its social, political, and cultural dimensions. Vārī is a site that enables the negotiation of social and cultural power relations. The book argues that the Vārī is an inclusive and open platform. In the process of the Vārī pilgrimage, a particular kind of public emerges that acquires a Vārkarī identity without necessarily transcending social identities and power structures attached thereto.

Author : Jon Keune
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197574836

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Shared Devotion, Shared Food by Jon Keune Pdf

"This book is about the deceptively simple question: when Hindu devotional or bhakti traditions welcomed marginalized people-women, low castes, and Dalits-were they promoting social equality? This the modern formulation of the bhakti-caste question. It is what Dalit leader B. R. Ambedkar had in mind when he concluded that the saints promoted spiritual equality but did not transform society. While taking Ambedkar's judgment seriously, when viewed in the context of intellectual history and social practice, the bhakti-caste question is more complex. This book dives deeply in Marathi sources to explore how one tradition in western India worked out the relationship between bhakti and caste on its own terms. Food and eating together were central to this. As stories about saints and food changed while moving across manuscripts, theatrical plays, and films, the bhakti-caste relationship went from being a strategically ambiguous riddle to a question that expected-and received-answers. Shared Devotion, Shared Food demonstrates the value of critical commensality to understand how people carefully negotiate their ethical ideals with social practices. Food's capacity to symbolize many things made it made an ideal site for debating bhakti's implications about caste differences. In the Vārkarītradition, strategically deployed ambiguity and the resonating of stories across media over time developed an ideology of inclusive difference-not social equality in the modern sense, but an alternative holistic view of society"--

Author : Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271045832

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The Ecstatic Quotidian by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei Pdf

Fascination with quotidian experience in modern art, literature, and philosophy promotes ecstatic forms of reflection on the very structure of the everyday world. Gosetti-Ferencei examines the ways in which modern art and literature enable a study of how we experience quotidian life. She shows that modernism, while exhibiting many strands of development, can be understood by investigating how its attentions to perception and expectation, to the common quality of things, or to childhood play gives way to experiences of ecstasis&—the stepping outside of the ordinary familiarity of the world. While phenomenology grounds this study (through Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Bachelard), what makes this book more than a treatise on phenomenological aesthetics is the way in which modernity itself is examined in its relation to the quotidian. Through the works of artists and writers such as Benjamin, C&ézanne, Frost, Klee, Newman, Pollock, Ponge, Proust, Rilke, Robbe-Grillet, Rothko, Sartre, and Twombly, the world of quotidian life can be seen to harbor a latent ecstasis. The breakdown of the quotidian through and after modernism then becomes an urgent question for understanding art and literature in its capacity to further human experience, and it points to the limits of phenomenological explications of the everyday.

Author : Farhat Hasan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316516812

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Paper, Performance, and the State : Social Change and Political Culture in Mughal India by Farhat Hasan Pdf

Looking at the political processes in early modern South Asia as shaped by state formation from below, this work argues that, outside the imperial and trans-regional contexts, the Mughal state subsisted on the mutually-empowering relations with the elites and common people.

Author : Haiyan Lee
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804768078

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Revolution of the Heart by Haiyan Lee Pdf

This book is an engagingly written critical genealogy of the idea of "love" in modern Chinese literature, thought, and popular culture. It examines a wide range of texts, including literary, historical, philosophical, anthropological, and popular cultural genres from the late imperial period to the beginning of the socialist era. It traces the process by which love became an all-pervasive subject of representation and discourse, as well as a common language in which modern notions of self, gender, family, sexuality, and nation were imagined and contested. Winner of the Association for Asian Studies 2009 Joseph Levenson Book Prize for the best English-language academic book on post-1900 China

Author : William Sherman
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781531505691

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Singing with the Mountains by William Sherman Pdf

An illuminating story of a Sufi community that sought the revelation of God. In the Afghan highlands of the sixteenth century, the messianic community known as the Roshaniyya not only desired to find God’s word and to abide by it but also attempted to practice God’s word and to develop techniques of language intended to render their own tongues as the organs of continuous revelation. As their critics would contend, however, the Roshaniyya attempted to make language do something that language should not do—infuse the semiotic with the divine. Their story thus ends in a tower of skulls, the proliferation of heresiographies that detailed the sins of the Roshaniyya, and new formations of “Afghan” identity. In Singing with the Mountains, William E. B. Sherman finds something extraordinary about the Roshaniyya, not least because the first known literary use of vernacular Pashto occurs in an eclectic, Roshani imitation of the Qur’an. The story of the Roshaniyya exemplifies a religious culture of linguistic experimentation. In the example of the Roshaniyya, we discover a set of questions and anxieties about the capacities of language that pervaded Sufi orders, imperial courts, groups of wandering ascetics, and scholastic networks throughout Central and South Asia. In telling this tale, Sherman asks the following questions: How can we make language shimmer with divine truth? How can letters grant sovereign power and form new “ethnic” identities and ways of belonging? How can rhyme bend our conceptions of time so that the prophetic past comes to inhabit the now of our collective moment? By analyzing the ways in which the Roshaniyya answered these types of questions—and the ways in which their answers were eventually rejected as heresies—this book offers new insight into the imaginations of religious actors in the late medieval and early modern Persianate worlds.

Author : GJV Prasad
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789388414210

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India in Translation, Translation in India by GJV Prasad Pdf

India in Translation, Translation in India seeks to explore the contours of translation of and in India-how Indian texts travel around the world in translation, how Indian texts travel across languages in the subcontinent and how texts from various languages of the world travel to India. The book poses pertinent questions like: · What influences the choice of texts and the translations, both within and outside India? · Are there different ideas of India produced through these translations? · What changes have occurred over the last two hundred odd years, from the time of colonialism and anti-colonial struggle to that of globalisation? · How does one rate the success or otherwise of a translation? · What is the role of these translations in their host languages, in their cultural and literary polysystems? The book includes eighteen essays from eminent academics and researchers who examine the numerous facets of the rich and varied translation activity. It shows how borders-both national and subnational, and generic-are created, how they are reinforced and how they are crossed. While looking at the theory, methodology and language of translation, the essays also enunciate the role of translations in political, social and cultural movements.

Author : Alan Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780755634118

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India's Forests, Real and Imagined by Alan Johnson Pdf

As they seek to explore evolving and conflicting ideas of nationhood and modernity, India's writers have often chosen forests as the dramatic setting for stories of national identity. India's Forests, Real and Imagined explores how these settings have been integral to India's sense of national consciousness. Alan Johnson demonstrates that modern writers have drawn on older Indian literary traditions of the forest as a place of exile, trial and danger to shape new ideas of India as a modern nation. The book casts new light on a wide range of modern writers, from Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay – widely regarded as the first Indian novelist – to contemporary authors such as Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie as well as local attitudes to nationhood and the environment across the country.

Author : Johann Jacob HAINLIN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1729
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019896073

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Synopsis mathematica universalis: or, A brief system of the mathematics, for young students ... By [or rather, translated by] Venterus Mandey by Johann Jacob HAINLIN Pdf

Author : Xiaobing Tang
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0822324474

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Chinese Modern by Xiaobing Tang Pdf

DIVAn analysis of the Chinese experience of modernity through the literary works, films and other cultural artifacts that represent it. /div

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : China
ISBN : HARVARD:HYBLMR

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Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11385826

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Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fritz W. Schulze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Geomagnetism
ISBN : NYPL:33433066414602

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On Periodical Change of Terrestrial Magnetism by Fritz W. Schulze Pdf