Pedagogical Otherness: The Use of Muslims and Untouchables in Some Hindu Devotional Literature
This article reconsiders some cases of interreligious and intercaste alterity in early modern India by highlighting a motive for depicting otherness that has been neglected in recent scholarship. I argue that depicting otherness can play an important pedagogical role for those who represent it, and...
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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Oxford University Press
[2016]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Anno: 2016, Volume: 84, Fascicolo: 3, Pagine: 727-749 |
| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Letteratura induista
/ Musulmano
/ Paria
/ L'altro
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| Notazioni IxTheo: | BJ Islam BK Induismo; Giainismo; Sikhismo KBM Asia |
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| Riepilogo: | This article reconsiders some cases of interreligious and intercaste alterity in early modern India by highlighting a motive for depicting otherness that has been neglected in recent scholarship. I argue that depicting otherness can play an important pedagogical role for those who represent it, and I show this by discussing a set of Marathi texts involving Muslims and Untouchables that are attributed to a distinguished and controversial poet-saint from sixteenth-century western India. I also argue that reading with sensitivity to the difference between a discursive other and a historical other is helpful for regarding vernacular devotional literature as a source of historical information. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfw001 |